Zhuang Jihua didn't speak, Wu Ziniu took out his coat and put it on him, a gold star shone in the sun, and the officer stood up and saluted.

"Report to the chief, Han Wu, lieutenant of the Jiujiang Garrison Regiment of the XX Division of the Third Army of the National Revolutionary Army, was ordered to carry out the order, please forgive me." Han Wu's eyes shot a look of reverence, they fought the west bank of the Ganjiang River, and admired Zhuang Jihua's victory against nearly 20,000 enemy troops with 3,000 people.

"What are you looking for?" Zhuang Jihua asked.

"We received a report that a Communist had boarded a boat, and we were ordered to search all passing ships."

"Commander Zhu has also begun to purge the party?" Zhuang Jihua asked knowingly.

"Yes, but the commander said that the Communist Party and we used to be friends, so we should get together and disperse, and send them out of the country as a gift." Han Wu replied.

"And what else are you searching for?" Han Wu didn't know that Zhuang Jihua was mocking, but Du Yuming and they understood, but Du Yuming didn't understand why Zhuang Jihua was like this.

"The army commander said that the Communist Party could not stay in Jiangxi, and after catching it, he would send them to the ship and send them to Wuhan." Han Wu explained.

"Oh, then you can check, there is no Communist Party on our ship, only the Kuomintang." Zhuang Jihua didn't want to talk nonsense with him, so he made a gesture and asked him to make it convenient for him.

"Don't dare to be humble, the chief is mighty, and don't dare to offend from humbleness." Han Wu then said in a closer tone: "When the commander was in Niuxing, he was fighting on the west bank of the Ganjiang River, and I sincerely admired the commander and the officers and men of the three armies. ”

"If you don't check, how will you explain when you go back." Zhuang Jihua didn't pick up this stubble.

"I will report truthfully to my boss, and my superiors will never pursue it, but he may come to see the superior." Han Wu was still straight: "If the chief wants to enter the city, he can take a lowly ship into the city." ”

Zhuang Jihua shook his head: "If you don't go, what else can you have besides the blood all over the ground?" Boring. ”

Han Wu obviously didn't expect to get such an answer, and was stunned.

"If you don't check, we'll have to hurry." Zhuang Jihua said very calmly.

"Is the chief going to Nanjing?" Han Wu asked, Zhuang Jihua nodded, he was a little impatient, and said to Du Yuming: "Guangting, you receive Lieutenant Han for me, and I will go back to the cabin to rest." After speaking, he said to Han Wu: "I'm sorry, I'll leave first." ”

"Sir, please take care of yourself and take your leave." Fools know that Zhuang Jihua is about to soar, and whoever dares to offend him at this time, even if Zhu Peide comes in person, he has to give three points of face.

Du Yuming has been through ups and downs for many years, and his surname has become more calm, so he politely sent him over the boat, and explained while walking: "The division commander's injury is not over yet, and he has recently been in Wuhan Prison..." ”

Han Wu hurriedly interrupted him: "We all know about General Zhuang, and those bastards in Wuhan know that listening to the Communist Party, even General Zhuang can't tolerate it, and who else can he tolerate." When the officers and men of our three armies heard about it, they all submitted a letter to the Military Council, demanding the release of General Zhuang. ”

These words were actually heard by Han Wu, Zhuang Jihua's political attitude is not a secret at the top level, there are also many people in the three armies who have learned from Sun Xue, during the Second Eastern Crusade, Zhuang Jihua stayed in Guangzhou and attended many high-level meetings, and the senior generals of the three armies were no strangers to him at all. After the news of Zhuang Jihua's arrest spread, it caused quite a stir among the senior generals of the three armed forces, coupled with dissatisfaction with the peasant movement. The generals discussed that there was no good result in following Wuhan, and sooner or later they would be killed by the Communist Party, and it was better to follow Chiang Kai-shek, which also invisibly affected Zhu Peide's attitude.

After Zhu Peide cleared the party, there was no danger on the rest of the road, but Zhuang Jihua was even more silent, Du Yuming tried to persuade him, but Zhuang Jihua just listened silently and didn't say anything, and after Du Yuming said dryly, Zhuang Jihua poured him a glass of water, and then said: "It's been more than three years since I left home, it's time to go back and see, my parents are old, they saved my life, and I didn't fulfill my responsibility." Guangting, the future is unpredictable, be cautious in everything, follow the principal closely, and you can be guaranteed to be fine for twenty years. ”

Du Yuming's eyes widened, he understood what Zhuang Jihua was going to do: "Cultural Revolution, without [***], we can still revolutionize, the principal will lead us to continue the Northern Expedition, you shouldn't leave now." ”

"The Northern Expedition? There was no Northern Expedition, and there would be a war in the future, a civil war against the Kuomintang, and Li Zongren, Li Jishen, Feng Yuxiang, Tang Shengzhi, and Yan Xishan, and then there was the suppression of the Communist Party. Zhuang Jihua's tone was calm, he had already made a decision after 4.12, and the reality along the way strengthened his thoughts.

"Cultural Revolution, I'm afraid you don't want to suppress the CCP." Of course, Du Yuming understood Zhuang Jihua's true thoughts.

"The Communist Party is not so easy to eliminate, the principal should not use military means, this is a political problem, or a social problem, and some of his ideas are in line with the current social needs. The sword cannot destroy faith. Zhuang Jihua was calm and indifferent, as if he had nothing to do with himself at all.

"I advocate the cooperation of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, and support the three major policies of the Prime Minister, but now that the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party has broken down, my proposition cannot be realized, and..."Zhuang Jihua pondered for a moment, and then looked directly at Du Yuming: "I can't shoot at Wushan, Chen Geng, and Zhou Enlai." In the same way, I can't shoot at you, at the principal, at Junshan, at Shoushan. ”

Du Yuming hesitated for a moment and asked, "Can they be the same as you?" If we don't escape, I'm afraid we'll already be ghosts. ”

"If he is unkind, I cannot be unjust."

"Will the headmaster let you go?" Du Yuming didn't want Zhuang Jihua to go deep down, but he also knew that he couldn't persuade him.

Zhuang Jihua didn't answer, he fell on the board of the boat, how could he let Chiang Kai-shek let him go? Zhuang Jihua was not sure in his heart, Chiang Kai-shek was not good at stubble, and if he really wanted to anger him, it was entirely possible to send him to a military court.

Seeing that Nanjing was getting closer and closer, Zhuang Jihua still didn't come up with a foolproof plan.

Jiujiang did not report Zhuang Jihua's whereabouts to Nanjing, after their boat docked at Xiaguan Wharf, Zhuang Jihua touched nothing on his body, and he said to the boat boss with some apologies: "I'm very sorry, thanks to you along the way, I wanted to send you something as a souvenir, but I didn't have anything on me." ”

The boat boss is very bold, he has already seen that Zhuang Jihua is the head of this group of people, and he is a person with a lot of background, now that he is in trouble, he will definitely develop in the future, and making such friends will have endless benefits for the future.

"The chief said that, our friends in the rivers and lakes are the most righteous, the chief is a righteous person, and it is my luck to be able to serve the chief." The boat boss is very bold.

"Okay, I've made a friend like Boss Xiao." Zhuang Jihua laughed, but he didn't care in his heart.

After going ashore, Du Yuming asked: "Cultural Revolution, where are we going now?" ”

Zhuang Jihua thought about it and said: "Guangting, you are a member of the Apprentice Corps, it is best to find Education Chief Zhang first and listen to his arrangement." ”

"What about you?"

"Go home and recuperate." Zhuang Jihua really couldn't think of a way to let his friends let him go, so he simply didn't want to do it, so he said that his injury was not good, and he would go home and stay to see what Chiang Kai-shek would do with him.

Du Yuming was dumbfounded, and he realized that Zhuang Jihua really quit, and he was very determined.

"I'll go home too, Lao Niu is right, the world is too chaotic, go home first, think clearly and then come, the dog said." Xia Yanglin picked up a life, he was both angry and helpless, after a few days of thinking, he still didn't think clearly, where the problem was, and he was also full of confusion about the future, and he decided to go home in frustration.

"Where are you going?" Zhuang Jihua asked Song Yunfei and Wu Ziniu, he felt very sorry for Song Yunfei, Song Yunfei followed him because of his faith, but now...

"We'll send you home and we'll talk about it later." Song Yunfei said very simply that the Northern Expedition was over, and he didn't know how to go in the future.

"Yunfei, I..." Zhuang Jihua couldn't say any more.

"Cultural Revolution, you have done your best, you don't need to blame yourself." Song Yunfei was also sad in his heart, but he still comforted Zhuang Jihua.

"It's hard to support it alone, and there is no way to return to the sky, Guangting, this is a letter from me to the principal, please transfer it to the principal." Zhuang Jihua looked at the endless crowd and sighed: "Let's go." "You must leave Nanjing as soon as possible, as soon as Du Yuming reports to the above, he may not be able to leave.

Zhuang Jihua didn't know that Chiang Kai-shek was not in Nanjing at the moment, but supervised the battle in Bengbu, after 4.12, Nanjing had two opinions on what to do next, one was to go west and crusade against Wuhan; The other is to continue the Northern Expedition, defeat the warlords first, and leave the intra-party strife for later. The two opinions were conflicting, and at this time Sun Chuanfang came out to help.

The Zhilu coalition began a counteroffensive in mid-April, encircling Hefei on 12 April and conquering Pukou along the Jinpu Road, while the elite of the Feng army under the leadership of Zhang Xueliang entered Zhumadian to threaten Wuhan.

Under these circumstances, Nanjing and Wuhan made a decision at the same time, first the Northern Expedition to defeat Zhang Zuolin, and then the Eastern or Western Expedition, and in May the Nanjing Front was divided into a three-way Northern Expedition, just two days before Zhuang Jihua arrived in Nanjing, Chiang Kai-shek rushed to the front line to supervise the battle.

Du Yuming found Zhang Zhizhong the next day, Zhang Zhizhong heard that Zhuang Jihua had gone home, and sighed repeatedly, before Zhuang Jihua had an accident, although Zhang Zhizhong valued him, but it was only slightly heavier than other classmates, but after Zhuang Jihua's accident, he realized that his influence had extended to the entire Huangpu system.

Needless to say, Zhuang Jihua's descendants of the First Division were originally dissatisfied with the division of force, and the whole division was scattered, and Chiang Kai-shek had to transfer Wang Jun and Hu Zongnan to the First Division as the chief and deputy division commanders, but even this failed to suppress the morale of the First Division; The Huangpu classmates discussed a lot about the division of the Communist Party, but as soon as Zhuang Jihua's matter came, the Huangpu system immediately became silent, and the veterans of the first division who had participated in the Niu Xing War asked for an immediate westward expedition to save the division commander, and even Xue Yue, who was gone, also continuously called to release Zhuang Jihua, Wuhan's behavior invisibly helped Chiang Kai-shek a lot, and stabilized the Huangpu system, which was a little chaotic.

After Chiang Kai-shek received a telegram, he immediately ordered the Shanghai Garrison Command and the Hangzhou Garrison Command to intercept Zhuang Jihua, and at the same time sent Yu Jishi to Hangzhou immediately with his handwritten letter.

(To be continued)