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Chapter 907: The Storm and the Storm (1)

Lushan Guling, the official residence of Chairman Chiang. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

At dawn, the light rain gradually stopped, the light gauzy mist slowly surged, the dark gray clouds in the sky dispersed, and the fish-white sky gradually brightened in the mist of the mountains.

Yang Yongtai and seven other members of the NPC Standing Committee's confidants and important ministers walked out of the official residence together, walked and talked in twos and threes, and rushed to the newly completed central government residence below.

Chiang Kai-shek walked out of the conference room on the southwest side of the first floor of the official residence, stretched his hands at the door, moved his tired joints, took a deep breath, walked through the spacious and simple main hall, walked into the office and study on the east side, and after sitting down, he motioned to the confidential attendant Guan Wenqiang who followed up to put the documents on the desk.

Chiang Kai-shek lifted the brush, turned it slightly on the inkstone, finished polishing the pen, and ordered without raising his head: "Open the curtain of the window, the air in the morning is very fresh." ”

Wen Qiang couldn't agree, Song Meiling's voice had already sounded: "I'll come, Nianguan, you're tired after a night of meeting, go and rest, I'm here." ”

Wen Qiang nodded and retreated gently.

Song Meiling, who was wearing a pure white sleeveless pure white dark flower cheongsam, quickly opened the curtains of the two wide windows, glanced at the beautiful clouds in the eastern sky dyed orange by the rising sun, returned to Chiang Kai-shek, and gently massaged his shoulders:

"The fog has cleared and it will be a good day today...... Darling, use the morning first, you should also take a break. ”

Chiang Kai-shek slowly leaned back in the chair, raised his hand to cover the soft back of Song Meiling's hand, closed his eyes, and said gently: "I can't sleep!" The day before yesterday, the three warships of the navy, 'Haiqi,' 'Haichen,' and 'Zhaohe,' defected south to Guangzhou under the lure of Chen Jitang's conspiracy, causing the entire navy to fluctuate and panic.

"It was hard to suppress the news, and then Feng Huanzhang, who was afraid that the world would not be chaotic, sent another telegram to the whole country, counting the rights and wrongs of many years ago, saying that I, Jiang, would only grovel to the Japanese and the foreign powers, but I was like a wolf and a tiger who murdered my own people, and I couldn't wait, and I was smeared again and again in all walks of life across the country and even in the world. Despite this, I didn't get angry, and I knew that Feng Huanzhang, who was in the middle of the river, no longer posed any threat to me except for that mouth.

"However, no one thought that my proud protégé, the godson-in-law who has always made you proud, suddenly became nervous, and at this critical time, he actually took the opportunity of the graduation ceremony of the non-commissioned officer school to hold a grand military parade, and dispatched all kinds of advanced weapons and equipment that had not been dispatched to fight against the Japanese, showing off his military might to the people of the world, causing an uproar in China and the whole world, and the chain reaction caused by this is about to appear, and I can't imagine how bad it will be...... You know? He's demonstrating to me! ”

"Darling, you must not be angry, you must not be angry!" Song Meiling saw that Chiang Kai-shek's face suddenly turned blue and his chest rose and fell sharply, so she hurriedly grabbed his hand and comforted him in harmony.

Chiang Kai-shek took several deep breaths in succession, forcibly suppressing the anger and disappointment that surged in his chest and abdomen. After receiving the secret report of the military parade in southern Sichuan at noon yesterday, Chiang Kai-shek did not get as angry as everyone expected, except for dropping his brush by mistake, and took a few deep breaths with his eyes closed as he did now, and calmly ordered the attendant room to immediately convene the relevant personnel and hold an emergency meeting.

During this meeting, which lasted from yesterday afternoon to early this morning, the consular officers of the three European and American countries in Beijing called to inquire about the situation.

As the detailed and complete secret reports arrived, Chiang Kai-shek and his confidants realized that the problem was getting more and more serious, and if it was not handled properly, it would lead to a sharp upheaval and political crisis in the whole situation, and even the possibility of a sudden national civil war.

The more critical the moment, the less a wise leader could behave in a panic and lose control of his words and deeds, so Chiang Kai-shek kept his anger alive, at least until now, he still maintained the calm and demeanor he deserved.

However, at this time, Chiang Kai-shek's heart was very unsteady, and the reason why he didn't even take a nap was actually waiting for an important result. With a tougher stance and a more resolute attitude, he will carry out-for-tat punishment and blows against the An Yi clique, which is obsessed with not coming to its senses and vainly trying to support the army and gain self-respect, thus forming a separatist and separatist territory.

If An Yi, who was a young man and proud of his achievements, and his ignorant generals did not repent, Chiang Kai-shek would immediately launch a second set of plans and adopt a multi-pronged approach to resolutely crack down on the An Yi group.

The main contents of the second package of plans include two aspects:

First, we should start active diplomacy so that the European and American powers and the country's major chaebols can clearly identify the situation and see who is China's leader and decision-maker; Cut off the foreign trade routes of Anyi Group step by step, secretly convened the economic work conference of the central government, and carried out policy suppression of Anyi Group's financial industry, industry and commerce in the way of central decision-making; At the same time, an announcement was issued in the name of rectifying the order of import and export trade across the country, and then measures to strengthen tax administration and management were used to block the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River in disguise, and strict safety inspections and tariff collection inspections were carried out on passing merchant ships.

The second aspect is to secretly dispatch party, government, and military special teams to Chongqing, Chengdu, Changsha, Kunming, Beiping, Taiyuan, and Xi'an to actively mediate and distribute benefits, including bribing and luring high-ranking officials from various separatist forces, promising to allocate large sums of "special military spending" to important local warlords, and doing their utmost to isolate the Anyi clique, and even triggering military conflicts between the surrounding armed forces and the Anyi clique.

Just half an hour ago, after repeated discussions at an emergency meeting and weighing all night, Chiang Kai-shek decisively issued a series of orders to retaliate and immediately annex the Poyang Lake Marine Police Division and the Anjia Army's air defense forces:

In the name of the Bandit Suppression Headquarters, he ordered the commander of the Poyang Lake Marine Police Division, Lu Guang, and the chief of staff, Mu Chaiyi, to immediately rush to Lushan to attend the urgently convened military meeting; In the name of the Navy Command, the Yangtze River Fleet of the Navy was ordered to immediately block the waterway from the mouth of the lake to the Yangtze River and prohibit the passage of all ships; At the same time, the Military Affairs Department and the Training Directorate Department of the Military Commission were ordered to join forces with the following to return the former independent division directly under the Central Military Commission across the river across the capital, and the First Regiment of the Air Defense Brigade of the Anjia Army, which was ordered to be stationed in the first battalion to take up the capital's air defense mission after being withdrawn from the North China Battlefield, will be reorganized by the Military and Political Affairs Department from now on. In the shortest possible time, we will strive to reorganize this air defense regiment, which An Yi could not take care of for a while, into an air defense regiment directly under the first garrison headquarters.

7:50 a.m., Hukou, Poyang Lake Marine Police Division Headquarters.

In the spacious office, the thirty-two-year-old Major General Commander Lu Guang slowly stood up and stared closely at Yuan Shutang, the deputy commander and party representative standing in front of him, until Yuan Shutang looked away in a weak heart, and Lu Guang asked coldly:

"Deputy Commander Yuan, brothers, I don't want to hurt each other's feelings for the responsibility that shouldn't be borne by you. I won't say anything else, and I will ask you one last time, what does it mean that Mr. Ji suddenly ordered me Lu and the chief of staff to go to Lushan at this time? ”

"The commander is too careful, haha...... It is estimated that it is an ordinary meeting to suppress bandits, if it weren't for the fact that the party affairs inspection team of the Central Party Department would come later, and the subordinates would also want to go with the commander. Yuan Shutang finally made up his mind and left morality.

"You ......"

"Calm down, reminiscence! We can't touch this despicable little man. ”

Cheng Guang grabbed the angry chief of staff Mu Retrospective, and motioned to Colonel Su Tieming, the confidential director and head of the special service group, who was standing behind the door, to come over:

"Lao Su, inform your special mission group to immediately block the base dock and the front dock at Hukou. Then inform Lao Yan of the 2nd Marine Brigade, Lu Linhai of the 1st Marine Brigade, and Fang Jide of the 2nd Marine Brigade to make all preparations for departure within an hour. ”

"Yes!"

Su Tieming, who entered the Anjia Army from Xiangxi in the early days of the Northern Expedition, didn't say a word, turned around and left.

Cheng Guang took Mu Remember's hand and glanced at Yuan Shutang, who was covered in sweat, with disdain: "Remembrance, you go and inform the first brigade commander Sun Delong, the quartermaster Zhou Pingyuan, and the chief of the Huangpu Department, and let them come over for a meeting immediately, let's tell the truth, let's get together and disperse, if anyone dares to stop it, don't blame us for not talking about friendship!" ”

Mu Zhaiyi nodded and looked at Yuan Shutang, who was pale: "What about this grandson?" ”

"Let him go out, I don't believe he can turn the sky upside down, in another half an hour, the special team of the Central Party Department and a company of the Political Department of the Nanchang Xingying who came to receive our Marine Police Division will arrive on the No. 07 transport ship, just take it together, and escort it to our command ship to go together!" Lao Tzu wants to see today, who the hell dares to do anything to Lao Tzu! The rare anger of Cheng Guang became angry, and he looked particularly hideous.

Mu Chaiyi and Cheng Guang never looked at Yuan Shutang again, nor did they get off his gun, and walked out of the office very disdainfully.

Yuan Shutang, whose legs were weak, trembled slightly with fright, and when he heard the footsteps in the distance, he immediately threw himself into the two telephones on the table, shook them three times quickly, picked up the receiver, and couldn't even hear the sound of electricity.

Yuan Shutang rang another internal phone again, wanting to inform the brigade commander Sun Delong not to come, but he didn't expect that there was no response to this phone.

Yuan Shutang shook the phone almost nervously, and after repeating it several times, he finally completely despaired, and suddenly realized that the whole operation had been leaked, and Cheng Guang, Mu Zhaiyi, and Su Tieming, the generals who were loyal to An Yi, had already mastered and made careful precautions, and it seemed that Lu Guang was really going to lead his troops up the river and defect to An Yi.

Thinking of this, Yuan Shutang suddenly shuddered, and suddenly realized that such a top-secret plan would become like this, at least the Central Party Investigation Bureau would hold a strict isolation investigation and even interrogation of Yuan Shutang, the only one who knew the inside story of the marine police division and had an important mission.

Cold sweat came out of Yuan Shutang's bright head and neck, and he finally understood what Cheng Guang's intention was to bring him to talk early in the morning, and he couldn't help but scream in despair, and sat on the ground with his butt - Cheng Guang, who was stern in appearance and did not smile, was actually a very emotional person, and what he said just now was to give Yuan Shutang one last chance, Yuan Shutang, who had dreamed that he could be promoted, did not seize this opportunity, and since then he has become the enemy of most of the officers and men of the Marine Police Division, and the enemy of the powerful An Family Army, If the word enemy is too serious, at least Yuan Shutang will become the target of spurning by all the soldiers of the An Family Army.

Twenty minutes later, the last fast transport ship No. 07 built before the Jiangnan Shipyard moved to Luzhou, appeared in the waters southeast of the dock of the Marine Police Division.

The three officers of the Special Service Section of the Investigation Bureau of the Central Party Department on the ship had grim expressions, and they were wearing dark blue tunics on such a hot day. The three of them looked at the wide dock where two American imported gunboats were parked from afar, and secretly prepared, and the section chief of the three had a grim face, and kept talking to the lieutenant colonel of the military police who graduated from the third phase of Whampoa around him, asking if Lu Guang and Mu Zhaiyi had already set off for Lushan?

The lieutenant colonel of the gendarmerie was disdainful in his heart, but his face was full of smiles, and he said that the section chief was relieved, saying that he was very familiar with Lu Guang and Mu Recall that these two captains of the Marine Police Division were standard soldiers and had always been models of abiding by military orders, and at this time I was afraid that they had arrived at the dock at the foot of Lushan Mountain.

The transport ship approached the unusually calm dock, and several officers and men on duty took the cable thrown from the ship and skillfully wound it around the thick iron pile.

One hundred and fifty gendarmes, led by a lieutenant colonel, jumped off the pier and quickly assembled.

The three officers of the party department stood still for a moment, put on top hats, got off the boat with a high toe, walked to a stop more than ten meters within the wharf, looked around, and did not see Yuan Shutang coming to greet him.

"Stop! You, come here...... Where have your party representatives gone? ”

The soldier grinned and pointed to the tall three-hundred-ton fast patrol gunboat: "I don't know about the party representatives, but our Commander Lu and Chief of Staff Mu have come over." ”

The section chief and the two people around him were taken aback, and when they turned around, the heavily armed Cheng Guang and Mu Recall led more than ten special elites to stride over, and the section chief immediately realized the danger, threw away the briefcase in his hand and wanted to pull out the gun, at this time, the Colt pistol in the hand of the inconspicuous soldier next to him was already on the temple of the section chief:

"Don't move, or you'll be killed like a wild dog."

The gendarmes were devastated, and immediately pointed their guns at Lu Guang and Mu Huiyi, who were standing in front of the three party officials, and shouted "Do not move", "Warning you to lay down your arms immediately or you will bear the consequences" and so on.

Cheng Guang frowned and pointed to the big boat by the water: "You make up your own minds, and if you have a kind, you will shoot at Lao Tzu!" ”

When the lieutenant colonel of the gendarmerie and more than 100 gendarmes looked up, they were immediately dumbfounded, more than a dozen light and heavy machine guns had already been set up on the side of the ship dozens of meters long, and the muzzles of the black holes were pointed at them.

At the moment when the gendarmes were frightened, a neat trumpet sounded to the sky, and Lu Linhai, commander of the Marine Brigade, led a regiment of heavily armed soldiers to run into the dock in formation.

With Lu Linhai's order, the lieutenant colonel of the gendarmerie and his 150 subordinates were all disarmed, and the slightest struggle was a burst of rifle butts, and in the blink of an eye, none of the gendarmes dared to move.

Cheng Cheng didn't even look at the three officers who had been stripped off their shirts and wore their upper bodies, shouted the sentence "all go", and took the lead towards the command ship.

Lu Linhai on the dock roared again, and the lieutenant colonel of the military police, including his 150 subordinates, was stripped of his shirt after searching his whole body, and then escorted one by one to a dozen large and small ships docked on the long pier.