Section 8 The Battle of Wuhan IV

Wu Dingchang was speechless, the Kuomintang regime has many contradictions, in addition to the Kuomintang organization is organized and scattered, factional, [***] multitudes, and gloomy, there is also the most serious external trouble in a century, and the internal warlords are divided and wars are endless. The public hopes to clear the politics and revive the decadent atmosphere of the past century, and in recent years, the people of Mingzhu have gradually become active, which is not related to this.

Zhuang Jihua issued a stern condemnation in the news media, but the specific action did not appear immediately, and when the whole and bottom were hesitating, the provincial security headquarters ordered that all the security regiments of the whole province should gather in Guiyang for a drill, and the drill was presided over by Zheng Zheng, deputy director of the Southwest Battalion, and Chen Mingshu, a member of the General Staff.

Secretly, the special forces led by Zhao Hanjie were divided into two routes, Zhao Hanjie personally led 240 people to secretly rush to Tongren, and Xiaobailong Fan Chunshen led another 240 people to secretly go to Dushan.

Xia Yanglin led the 112th Army's vanguard division, the Honorary 10th Division, to advance through the Qijiang River to Guizhou, and the military headquarters led by Huang Botao and the newly formed 150th Division followed suit. For this action, Huang Botao's heart was full of helplessness, most of the 112th Army were recruits, these recruits had been wearing military uniforms for less than a month, and the weapons of the troops were only made in Hanyang, and even a considerable part of them were made in Sichuan.

However, Huang Botao was very satisfied with Xia Yanglin, he had heard of the two brigade commanders of the 49th Group Army in the Fifth War Zone, these two people had never heard of them before, they were two great generals who emerged in the war, and they made great contributions in the great victory in Yucheng and Xuzhou, Chiang Kai-shek had personally awarded them medals, he did not expect Zhuang Jihua to transfer one of them.

Xia Yanglin was also satisfied with the organization of the troops, and he did not disperse all the veterans who had returned from injury to the troops, but retained some of them and organized them into a division headquarters guard battalion, which was all equipped with Yucheng-made weapons and was equipped with heavy weapons such as bazookas and 82 mortars, and of course the 105 howitzers and 75 mountain artillery were not available in the whole army.

Huang Botao also retained a veteran battalion in the newly formed 150th Division, and the military headquarters retained a veteran corps; in fact, the veteran corps of the military headquarters also played the role of a teaching regiment, and the good seedlings found in the training of recruits were sent to this regiment to continue training, and in the future, as sergeants, they will serve as the core backbone of the troops.

Of course, Huang Botao still didn't understand what Zhuang Jihua's purpose was in transferring the troops to Guizhou, in his opinion, this army could not be used at all, and letting this army suppress bandits was tantamount to sending them to death. Before leaving, he sent a telegram to Zhuang Jihua to state his reasons, pointing out that the troops could not fight now, but Zhuang Jihua asked him to go to Guiyang, and then tell him everything when he arrived in Guiyang. So he was nervous and took his troops on the road.

But Xia Yanglin's mood was completely different from Huang Botao's, he was holding back a breath in his heart, the front-line war was about to start but he was transferred back to train a new army, it was really inexplicable, he almost wanted to disobey the order, but the order from Deng Yanda was to let him return to Sichuan immediately and accept the appointment, this order made him have some other ideas, thinking that this was an agreement between Deng Yanda and Zhuang Jihua in secret, so he honestly accepted the order.

After the troops arrived in Guiyang, Xia Yanglin left the troops in the iron factory outside the city, and entered the city with four guards, because of the outstanding performance in the three battles of Guangde Xuzhou and Yucheng, the military rank has been promoted to major general, wearing a golden star, riding a captured Oriental horse, Xia Yanglin looked triumphantly at the bustling crowd on the street.

Although Guiyang is the largest city in Guizhou, it is a county town compared with Chongqing, Wuhan, Shanghai and Nanjing, and Yucheng is not big, and it is also a small county in the eyes of Xiajiang people, but the vigorous development of these seven years, the scale of the city has expanded again and again, and it is actually close to Wuhan, which is too prosperous compared to Guiyang.

The horse's hooves struck the stone slab crisply, Xia Yanglin relaxed the reins, and walked forward slowly, looking at the cityscape of Guiyang as he walked, but unfortunately, the city in his eyes made him very disappointed.

Guizhou is actually a city of wood, the shops on both sides are made of wood, the old wood is covered with a layer of dust, the paint has already begun to peel off, the narrow windows on the second floor are close to the roof, and the leisurely tea customers lean against the windows while drinking tea while enjoying the flow of people shuttling through the street.

The people of Guizhou are dressed similarly to the people of Sichuan, and they also have a circle of cloth wrapped around their heads, but the color is not necessarily white, but there are various colors. Occasionally, I saw a female student shuttling through the crowd with a donation box, persuading people to donate money for the protest. The scorching sun shone on the street, Bai Shengsheng's eyes were dazzling, and a small umbrella floated in front of the horse, and Xia Yanglin's eyes couldn't help but float over.

"Get out of the way! Get out of the way! ”

"What are you going to do!"

The angry voices of two girls came from the alley, Xia Yanglin grabbed the reins of the horse and took two steps back, the two female students were stopped at the exit of the alley by seven or eight soldiers with guns on their backs, and they were laughing and making fun of themselves, and the surrounding citizens dared to be angry and dare not speak.

"Smack." "Ouch!" A soldier screamed in pain and fell to the side, the soldier turned around with a scolding, and couldn't help but be dumbfounded when he saw Xia Yanglin riding a tall horse.

"Which troops? How dare you molest a woman in the street? What a guts! Xia Yanglin said coldly, the current Xia Yanglin is not the young man who ran to Yucheng to find Zhuang Jihua a few years ago who was still a little bookish, but after several battlefield battles, this anger, his body naturally exuded a majestic and murderous aura, and the strong pressure directly pressed those soldiers.

"Who are you,..., you?" Someone among the soldiers finally had the courage to ask.

Unexpectedly, this problem would bring more trouble, a guard behind Xia Yanglin stepped forward immediately, whipped and scolded: "TMD, what are you!" Be honest! ”

The soldiers were about to take their guns, and the two bullets flew over the scalp, and a guard behind Xia Yanglin had two guns in his hands, the muzzle of the gun was smoking, and Leng Sensen's eyes were full of murderous aura.

The whip-wielding soldier sneered, and then a few more lashes went down, leaving a few deep blood marks on the opponent's face: "Draw a gun, what a big gut!" ”

"Stop! Stop it! There was a loud shout from behind, and the onlookers immediately dispersed, and more than twenty soldiers walked in from the periphery, led by a sturdy man, whose military uniform was not buttoned at all, and his military hat was also worn diagonally, and the armed belt hung loosely on his shoulders. This person swaggered to Xia Yanglin and gave a military salute crookedly.

"Sir, these are all junior brother's subordinates, they are all countrymen, they have never seen the market, please forgive me if I am offended."

The smell of wine in his mouth was smelled from afar, Xia Yanglin frowned, stared at him coldly, and shouted softly for a while: "This is your soldier?" ”

"Yes, it's a brother's subordinate." The officer was a little unsteady on his feet, and reached out to pull Xia Yanglin's horse, Xia Yanglin's face flashed with anger, and he kicked him over with one kick.

"Something! Dare to call Lao Tzu a brother! ”

The soldiers suddenly talked loudly, and they all took their guns, Xia Yanglin's guards all had two guns in their hands, but Xia Yanglin didn't even move his eyes, jumped off the horse, raised his whip and slammed at the officer, the officer didn't expect that he would be treated like this, and the alcohol suddenly went to seven points, Xia Yanglin stepped on his chest after whipping more than a dozen whips.

"Boy, look at you being embarrassed by Lao Tzu like this, if you are in Lao Tzu's army, Lao Tzu will already cramp and peel you!"

The officer screamed and screamed, and his mouth was still directly affirming: "We are Commander Zhang's people, Commander Zhang's people!" ”

His soldiers looked at Xia Yanglin nervously, holding their guns, but they didn't know what to do at all.

"Haha, haha. Thank you, general, for teaching Zhang this unsuccessful thing. A big man with a beard walked out from behind the crowd, laughed and arched his hand at Xia Yanglin: "In Xia Zhang Jiugen, the head of the Tongzi Security Regiment, please ask the general Gao's name?" ”

Xia Yanglin raised his eyes to look at him, and saw that this person was wearing a dark blue Qianjun military uniform, wearing a big cap, but there was no military rank on his shoulders. Xia Yanglin's guard chief said coldly: "This is us..." Xia Yanglin walked to the opposite side of Zhang Jiugen without waiting for him to finish, and the chief guard immediately shut up.

"My name is Xia Yanglin, the commander of the 10th Honorary Division, your name is Zhang Jiugen," Xia Yanglin paced back and forth in front of Zhang Jiugen, looked up and down, and suddenly shouted: "Lizheng!" ”

Zhang Jiugen was caught off guard, subconsciously put his feet together, Xia Yanglin continued to reprimand: "If you put on a military uniform, you are a soldier, look at you like this, you don't stand or sit, how can you look like a soldier, no wonder your soldiers are more like bandits." ”

The name Xia Yanglin is not unfamiliar to the people, the Battle of Phoenix Mountain fought out a brigade of the army with a regiment, and was compiled into a drama by the three halls to tour all over the country, and then in the defense of Xuzhou and the counterattack of Yucheng, Xia Yanglin and Zhang Lingfu were called the iron-blooded heroes of the five war zones in the press, quoting Zhuang Jihua's words, calling them a mad dog and a hungry wolf.

But it was obvious that this Zhang Jiugen didn't know this name, but the name of the [***] division commander had already made him dare not move, not to mention the reaction of the surrounding crowd, which made him understand that this person was not simple.

"Yes, I know my mistakes." Zhang Jiugen didn't dare to tell that Xia Yanglin was completely different from the generals of the Qianjun Army he was familiar with, he had no Jianghu Qi at all, and the Jianghu set didn't work at all: "In the future, the lowly position must be strictly controlled, and military discipline will be strictly enforced." ”

"Okay, let's get out of here!" Xia Yanglin didn't talk nonsense, and waved him to take people away.

Before Zhang Jiugen left, the two female students, as well as several reporters and students around him, rushed up to surround Xia Yanglin.

"General Xia, General Xia, are you General Xia Yanglin who fought the Phoenix Mountain to eliminate the Liaoshan Brigade?"

"General Xia,...。"

"That is, our division commander fought for three days and three nights, and beat that kid from Katayama into a meat patty." The captain of the guard triumphantly boasted to everyone.

Now the crowd was more enthusiastic, the shouts of "General Xia, General Xia" were endless, Xia Yanglin, who was still majestic just now, was a little in a hurry now, he hurriedly climbed on the war horse and fled away from the crowd.

(To be continued)