Chapter 21: A Chance Encounter in the Great Camp
"This path is the shortest way to the camp. Thirty miles northeast from Daying is Pingxingguan. Fei Ge wants to take his brothers to Pingxingguan to fight devils, and this path is the closest way. Although it is only the second day of enlistment, Liu Xingkui has already called Hu Fei Brother like the veterans of the cavalry brigade.
Daying Town is only thirty miles away from Pingxingguan, and the distance is just right, but I don't know how the human geography is there? If you can, it's a good choice to use the big camp as a base and look for opportunities to get oil and water from the devils around there.
The big camp is indeed a good place. During the eight-year War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, there were many capable generals in the Kuomintang and Communist armies, and Hu Fei could think that the location of the camp was good, and there were more people who took a fancy to this place before him, and General Fu Zuoyi, commander-in-chief of the Seventh Army and former commander-in-chief of the enemy in the Pingxingguan Campaign, was one of them.
Fu Zuoyi's headquarters arrived half a day earlier than Hu Fei's cavalry brigade. The cavalry brigade set off at half past seven in the morning, took a shortcut and waited for Hu Fei to arrive at the camp at half past eleven o'clock in the afternoon, but the headquarters of the Seventh Army had already arrived at the camp two hours earlier. In other words, Fu Zuoyi and his headquarters left in the middle of the night last night!
After Hu Fei arrived at Daying Town, what he saw was a large barracks. Groups of soldiers came and went, cars and carriages hurried by, all wearing the blue-gray military uniforms of the national army. Checkpoints around the town were also set up, and Hu Fei and his troops had just come out of the path when they were stopped by a patrol.
"Stop! What are you from? ”
"We belong to the Independent Cavalry Brigade of the Seventh Army, and this is my ID." The squad leader hurried over to show his ID to the patrol.
Hu Fei patted his horse to the front, tilted his body and asked the soldiers of the patrol: "Brother, which commander is stationed in Daying Town?" ”
"The separate cavalry brigade directly under the command of the army group? Oh, you're Captain Hu's team. The town is stationed at the headquarters, and if you go to the Pingxing Pass, you can just follow this road. If you come to the headquarters for office work, you will have to wait, and the commander of the Eighth Route Army is holding a meeting inside. Who are you? ”
"I'm Hu Fei."
"It turned out to be Captain Hu. Salute! The patrol soldiers stood up and saluted, but there was not much respect in their expressions. He is the guard unit of the headquarters, and the regiment commander of the troops below is here, and the soldiers of the patrol team of the headquarters will not necessarily give him a good face. The reason why these soldiers saluted Hu Fei was only because the cavalry brigade was also a team directly under the headquarters, and everyone was not an outsider.
When Hu Fei was about to pass through the town directly from Daying Town along the road, a group of people suddenly came out of the town, and there were more than 100 people. These people were wearing military uniforms, but they did not walk in a neat queue, and more than 100 people walked loosely, and all the officers and soldiers of the country who saw them on the road stood up and saluted.
It seems that a big official is coming, maybe there is Fu Zuoyi in it! Hu Fei didn't want to meet Fu Zuoyi at this time.
Commander-in-Chief Fu asked the cavalry brigade to keep a distance of five kilometers from the headquarters, Hu Fei had an opinion on Fu Zuoyi because of this matter, on the one hand, on the other hand, it was obviously within five kilometers from the headquarters, if Commander-in-Chief Fu saw it, wouldn't he violate the military order again?
He couldn't dodge, so Hu Fei asked his troops to avoid the roadside and let the family go over first.
Hu Fei thought that he would hide from the roadside, but he didn't know how dazzling his cavalry brigade was.
With more than five hundred cavalry, plus nearly a thousand infantry, the Independent Cavalry Brigade now has one and a half thousand cavalry infantry! A unit of 1,500 people appeared at the gate of the headquarters of the group army, and it was difficult for him not to get noticed! When a commander sees such a unit coming from his gate, he must not ask the origin of the number.
Coincidentally, there is really Commander-in-Chief Fu in this group of people who came! Fu Zuoyi frowned when he saw the more than 1,000 cavalry infantry in chaos outside the gate, he didn't suspect the enemy of this group, Commander-in-Chief Fu just felt that the discipline of this army was not good! The commanders have all come out, and these national soldiers at the gate still continue to smoke and chat without eyes, which is too serious about the commanders!
Commander-in-Chief Fu asked the guards to go over and ask where the cavalry troops outside the gate were? The guards came back in less than five minutes, and the unit at the gate was an independent cavalry brigade directly under the command headquarters, and the captain was named Hu Fei!
Hu Fei! It turned out to be this bandit! Fu Zuoyi's face changed, and he simply turned his face away, he wanted to send the people of the Eighth Route Army away first.
"Commander-in-Chief Fu, is this your cavalry unit? Looks good! The soldiers are mighty and the spirit of war horses, and at first glance it is a division capable of fighting. This unit is the one who participated in the Battle of Bailing Temple, right? A thin soldier with a pair of dark eyebrows seemed to be a little interested in Hu Fei's cavalry brigade.
"Hehe, what Senior Commander Lin said is right, some of them did participate in the Battle of Bailing Temple. Let's go, I'll send you out. Commander-in-Chief Fu obviously didn't want to talk more about that cavalry unit, he was afraid that if he talked too much, he would miss it. If Division Commander Lin knew the origin of most of the people in the cavalry brigade, wouldn't he make the friendly troops laugh?
A young soldier in the crowd stared at the cavalry brigade for a while, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he took a few steps closer to the middle, approaching a middle-aged soldier, and whispered something. The middle-aged soldier seemed a little surprised, and asked rhetorically.
After the two of them had a short whispered conversation, the middle-aged soldier greeted Fu Zuoyi: "Commander-in-Chief Fu, I want to meet the commander of the heroic unit who participated in the Battle of Bailing Temple to say hello?" ”
Fu Zuoyi's face suddenly stiffened a little, "Hehe, hehe, yes, of course." Political Commissar Nie wants to meet, I'll call their captain over for you. Guard, go and call Captain Hu over! When he ordered the guards, Fu Zuoyi was still beating the drum in his heart, praying in his heart that Hu Fei would never show his face in front of the Eighth Route Army!
Of course, Hu Fei will not show foreign appearances! He used to be bearded, and he didn't know what the national army was, but now he understands where there are still jokes?
After receiving the order conveyed by Fu Zuoyi's guards, Hu Fei sorted out his military uniform and hat, rode a spotted horse and trotted all the way, and when he was still twenty meters away from Fu Zuoyi and others, a beautiful fish jumped off the horse. This action of jumping off horseback implies martial arts, and ordinary people look chic and beautiful, but it is almost impossible to do the same.
Twenty meters away, he trotted over, snapped and saluted, "Report to the commander-in-chief, Hu Fei of the Independent Cavalry Brigade has been ordered to come and report!" The pace was elegant, the salute was chic, and after Hu Fei's set of actions, the senior generals present nodded in approval.
"Hu Fei, this is Division Commander Lin and Political Commissar Nie of the Eighth Route Army. The two, this is Hu Fei, the captain of the independent cavalry brigade who participated in the Battle of Bailing Temple. Commander-in-Chief Fu already had a reserved smile on his face.