Soon after Feng Yuxiang left, Liu Ruming led the army back to Zhangjiakou on the order of Song Zheyuan, and the allied army was forced to withdraw to Zhangbeiba for the previous generation, intending to contact Sun Dianying, but Sun Dianying refused, the allied army fell into chaos, Fang Zhenwu led the troops to leave Dushikou, and soon Gao Shuxun announced that he would break away from the allied army and accept Song Zheyuan's incorporation, and Sun Liangcheng announced that he would follow Feng Yuxiang and also leave the allied army to go to Beiping.

The Frontline Working Committee finally adopted Ji Hongchang's suggestion and the whole army went to Dushikou to join Fang Zhenwu, and at this moment there were still more than 10,000 people in the Allied Army. The Frontline Working Committee held a meeting in Dushikou, where it was decided to abandon the banner of the Anti-Japanese Allied Army and rebuild it into an anti-Japanese army against thieves, and put forward the slogan of fighting to Beiping, and the troops went south in two ways to attack Beiping. Under the impetus of Ke Qingshi, the new secretary of the Frontline Work Committee, the Dushikou Conference also expelled Zhang Mutao, Xu Quanzhong, and Wu Zhige, who opposed the southward movement and opposed the reorganization.

As soon as the banner of the Communist Party was established in the anti-thief army, the Beiping Army Branch decided to crusade, and dispatched the 32nd, 17th, and 29th armies of Shang Zhen to surround the southbound thief army south of Huairou, after three days of fierce fighting, most of the thief army was annihilated, and the rest of the army was incorporated through the coordination of Shang Zhen, Fang Zhenwu and Ji Hongchang fled from the army, and the members of the front-line working committee left the army before being surrounded, and Xuanxia's father went to Shanghai, so far the alliance collapsed.

Zhuang Jihua inspected the work of the Wuhan transfer station in Wuhan, and the materials to be transported in Wuhan are still piled up, and the stationmaster of the Wuhan transfer station is called Wu Linpu, and the Wuhan transfer station is not only responsible for transporting materials, but also responsible for sending personnel from all over the country, and the task is very heavy. Wu Linpu couldn't help but complain to Zhuang Jihua about the lack of manpower and space, hoping to increase manpower, and at the same time let Shanghai temporarily stop sending materials to Wuhan, the materials of the southwest development team have occupied 50% of the warehouses in Wuhan, and there is really no storage warehouse for further delivery. Zhuang Jihua's solution was simple, immediately build a warehouse, and the work of transferring materials must not be stopped, and at the same time comforted him that the newly purchased seven ships would arrive soon, and the backlog of materials could be alleviated. Wu Linpu agreed with a sad face.

On August 9, Zhuang Jihua returned to Yucheng, and before he got off the boat, he saw a large group of reporters waiting on the dock of Guanyinqiao, Zhuang Jihua felt a little irritable, he didn't know how many reporters he refused to interview along the way, most of these reporters were asking about the Rehe armistice agreement, and he could not explain the mystery in detail, so he had to say plainly that the Rehe armistice agreement was not a defeated agreement, and then refused to express his opinion.

Sure enough, as soon as he got off the boat, reporters swarmed up and asked:

"General Zhuang, it is rumored that you presided over the Rehe Armistice Agreement, is that so?"

"Vice Mayor Zhuang, what do you think of the Rehe Armistice Agreement?"

"Captain Zhuang, the Rehe Armistice Agreement..."

…….

"General Zhuang, how does it feel to betray Rehe?"

Zhuang Jihua couldn't hold back any longer, he stood still and looked at the young reporter coldly, and the reporter met his gaze without showing weakness. Zhuang Jihua suppressed the anger in his heart and said calmly: "I repeat, the Rehe armistice agreement is not a defeat agreement, if you don't believe it, you can go and interview Muto Nobuyoshi and Koiso Kuniaki and Okamura Ningji." ”

"But the Rehe armistice agreement betrayed half of Rehe, that's a fact!" The reporter asked.

"We failed to recover all of Rehe because we did not have the strength to recover all of Rehe, and the victory of the Great Wall War of Resistance at that time was that we thwarted the strategic purpose of the Yue army's attempt to seize the Great Wall, coerce Pingjin, and establish a bridgehead for the next full-scale invasion of China, so strategically speaking, it was our victory." After Zhuang Jihua finished speaking, he turned around and left, he knew that he had fallen for the reporter, and he was angered by them.

"General Zhuang, General Zhuang," the reporters caught up, Wu Ziniu and Lu Ruishan were beside Zhuang Jihua to separate the reporters who blocked the road for him, hearing the reporter's words, Lu Ruishan hesitated, this question also hovered in his heart for a while, in Wuhan he also asked Zhuang Jihua, but Zhuang Jihua didn't say anything, just said that he would tell him in detail when he was free in the future, and although Wu Ziniu told him something he didn't know, he couldn't solve the mystery in his heart.

In Lu Ruishan's hesitation, a reporter rushed to Zhuang Jihua: "General Zhuang, in the battle of the Great Wall, why did the [***] team not take advantage of the victory to expand the results of the battle, but instead signed a treaty that humiliated the country?" ”

Zhuang Jihua stopped, he sighed in his heart, feeling that he had done a very ridiculous thing, paid money, spent time, was injured, and finally ended up infamy.

"As far as I know, I also think that the Rehe Armistice Agreement is an agreement that humiliates the country, and I don't know if you have the same understanding as them."

After Zhuang Jihua finished speaking, he pushed away the reporter and continued to walk forward, leaving the reporter there in a daze, and the reporter found that Zhuang Jihua walked away and immediately caught up again.

"Brother Zhuang! Brother Zhuang! ”

Zhuang Jihua stood up and looked back, Mei Youlan was smiling like a flower holding a large handful of flowers and rushed over, in the scorching August sun, sweat flowed down her fair cheeks, and she was in a hurry without any ladylike demeanor.

"I was waiting for you at Chaotianmen Wharf for a long time, but I didn't expect you to go ashore here, so I chased you for a long time." Mei Youlan panted and explained why she was late, and then handed the flower in her hand to Zhuang Jihua: "Welcome back victorious!" ”

Zhuang Jihua took the bouquet, took out a handkerchief from his pocket and handed it to her, shook his head and said, "Wipe it, look at the sweat on your face, where have you been going to play in the past few months?" ”

Zhuang Jihua has a rule that no one in the development team is allowed to pick up anyone who goes out, so Li Zhilong and they did not come to pick him up today. Mei Youlan is not a member of the development team, and she is not subject to this restriction. Since Mei Yuntian arrived in Yucheng, he took over Mei Youlan's work, Mei Youlan has nothing to do, in view of her coming back from the United States, her studies are not finished, Zhuang Jihua suggested that she go to Peking University or Tsinghua University to complete her studies, but she was unwilling, so she went to Yucheng University to study, but after a few days, she was a little impatient, the teaching method and content gap between major and American universities are relatively large, barely half a semester, after the winter vacation, she no longer wants to go to major studies to waste time, Mei Yuntian can't control her, Let Lian Xiaosen accompany her to play everywhere in Sichuan, Chengdu, Emei Mountain, Qingcheng Mountain, Dazu Rock Carvings, Leshan Giant Buddha, these places of interest turned around, and when she came back at the end of May, she knew that Zhuang Jihua went to the north, and now she was a little anxious, and she was about to go out of Sichuan, but this time Mei Yuntian was resolutely not allowed, and invited Gong Embroidery, Pan Huiqin, and Liu Yinshu to be lobbyists.

Liu Yinshu noticed Mei Youlan's meaning to Zhuang Jihua in Shanghai, but she didn't take it to heart, in her opinion, if Zhuang Jihua was interested in Mei Youlan, then he would not marry him, and Mei Youlan would not chase him here from the United States, so she agreed that Mei Youlan and Zhuang Jihua would go to Beiping together, and after arriving in Yucheng, Mei Youlan came to her home and welcomed her warmly. But this time Mei Youlan wants to go to Beiping, she also resolutely disagrees, she told Mei Youlan, Zhuang Jihua went to Beiping to fight, not to play, you will not give him any help except for causing trouble to him, even if he goes, Zhuang Jihua will send someone to send her back, and finally she gave the example of chasing Zhuang Jihua for half of China during the Northern Expedition, which illustrates the uncertain surname of the war.

Facing the angry Liu Yinshu, Mei Youlan hesitated, the little girl's psychology was simple, she fell hopelessly in love with Zhuang Jihua, and at first she had some malice towards Liu Yinshu due to jealousy, but for more than a year, she had to admit that Liu Yinshu also loved Zhuang Jihua, loved Zhuang Jihua more than her, and knew Zhuang Jihua better than her, and even a fool knew her feelings for Zhuang Jihua, but Liu Yinshu didn't treat her as an outsider at all, and treated her as good as always, which once made her very confused and puzzled.

Just when she was hesitating, Mei Yuntian became impatient, he got angry, and unceremoniously told Mei Youlan that if she must go north to find Zhuang Jihua, he would have to send a telegram to the United States, tell her grandfather what she had done, and ask him to send someone to take her back to the United States.

Mei Youlan decided to listen to everyone, not to go to Beiping, she calculated at home every day when Zhuang Jihua would come back, read the newspaper every day, after the signing of the Rehe armistice agreement, she thought Zhuang Jihua was coming back, but Zhuang Jihua did not come back, at the end of June, the newspaper suddenly reported that Zhuang Jihua betrayed Rehe, which made her very angry, she began to write articles for Zhuang Jihua to distinguish, and then she instigated Mei Yuntian to buy a newspaper, she herself came to be the editor-in-chief of this company called "Yuzhou Evening News", she started a debate with others in the newspaper, In fact, it's not a polemic, anyway, whoever scolds Zhuang Jihua, she scolds whom, and sends reporters to dig up the ** of other people's ancestors for three generations, and then publishes it in the newspaper, causing an uproar in the Yucheng press circles, but her backstage is too hard, and no one can do anything about her. The person who was scolded and dug up by her had to admit that he was unlucky.

Her actions quickly attracted the attention of Tang Zong and Teng Jie, who Tang Zong and Teng Jie were and immediately realized the value of it, and the "Southwest Progress Daily" controlled by Teng Jie echoed her, almost turning public opinion around.

The reason why it is almost said is that a master of scolding war suddenly appeared in the press circles of Chongqing, "Xinyu Daily", this is a newspaper that was only established in mid-July, the chief writer of this newspaper is very powerful, the writing is sharp, a serial article of "Ten Commentaries on the Rehe Armistice Agreement" immediately turned the situation around, Mei Youlan wanted to take medicine to deal with him according to the prescription, but a check, this main writer came from Shanghai, and his history could not be found.

Mei Youlan was angry and wanted to send a telegram to Zhang Jingjiang in Shanghai, asking him to send someone to check, but before Zhang Jingjiang could send a telegram, she heard that Zhuang Jihua was back today, and she was happy, she put down this matter, and planned to listen to Zhuang Jihua's opinion before doing it.

"Where's Shaoqing?" Zhuang Jihua didn't see Mei Yuntian, so he asked Mei Youlan.

"I went to Chengdu a few days ago, and Liu Xiang asked him to discuss something." Mei Youlan smiled and was about to hold Zhuang Jihua's arm, she was like this before, but this time Zhuang Jihua waved her arm lightly, flashing her outstretched hand, Mei Youlan was stunned.

"General Zhuang, do you think the Rehe armistice agreement is a victory for us?" The young journalist seized the opportunity to ask another question.

Zhuang Jihua just avoided Mei Youlan's embarrassment, he turned around and made a gesture to the reporters, and the reporters suddenly quieted down, waiting intently for Zhuang Jihua's answer.

"From the south to the north, I have heard people say that the Rehe armistice agreement betrayed Rehe and was an agreement that lost power and humiliated the country, but I think this judgment is wrong." Zhuang Jihua said solemnly: "I participated in this war and also participated in the negotiation of the armistice agreement, as a first-hand witness, I am qualified to make such a judgment." ”

"If it was a victory, why did the army occupy two-thirds of Rehe?"

"You are journalists, and I may not be as good as you when writing articles, but I am definitely better than you in war," Zhuang Jihua said unceremoniously: "War is divided into tactics and strategy, and tactics are subordinate to strategy, which is military common sense." We lost two-thirds of Rehe, failed to recover the whole territory of Rehe, and were tactically defeated; But we won a strategic victory, we thwarted the attack on the Great Wall, thwarted their attempt to enter the North China Plain, made the Yue Ben understand our determination to resist strongly, and forced them to slow down the pace of invasion of China, and for the first time we did not end the war by retreating, is this not a great victory. ”

Zhuang Jihua looked at the reporters who were recording quickly, and he said: "Our China is a weak country, and a weak country has no diplomacy. ”

"Then if you lose most of the hot river, won't the soldiers who are blood-stained in the field chill?" The young journalist retorted.

"I suggest you go back and look at "On War" and "The Art of War" before discussing such issues."

After Zhuang Jihua unceremoniously dropped a sentence, he ignored these reporters anymore, and led the way to the base, and when he arrived at the gate of the base, Zhuang Jihua found that there was a construction site opposite the base that was under construction, and he stopped and looked at it a little strangely before walking into the gate of the base.

(To be continued)