In winter, the old estuary is white, the cold wind blows through the fields, sweeps the icy water, and the branches of the trees stand bare on the ground, shivering. \\. QВ⑸。 It was a cold winter, but to the Old Bayou area was lively, and the roads were full of motorcades and migrant workers. After the Battle of Wuhan, "Li Zongren's Fifth Theater Headquarters was first in Nanyang in western Henan, and later moved to Laohekou.

After moving to Laohekou, Li Zongren started a large-scale road transportation construction in the Fifth War Zone after stabilizing the defensive line.

At this moment, Li Zongren's mood was very depressed, Chongqing's order had come, although he had been mentally prepared, but the sense of loss still lingered involuntarily in his heart. Xu Zuyi understands his mood very well, and the two of them have become more and more proficient in cooperation in recent years. In the past two months, the signs of Li Zongren's transfer have become more and more obvious, and the atmosphere in the headquarters has become more and more dull, although Li Zongren has continued to work in a step-by-step manner, building roads, reorganizing the troops, and continuing to push forward social reforms.

In the past few years, Li Zongren imitated Shangqiu Meicao to carry out social reforms in northern Hubei and western Henan, "But Li Zongren's social reform was also different from Shangqiu's, he did not use party organizations, but used the National Salvation General Association and the People's Training Department to establish amnesty organizations in various places, promote rent and interest reductions, and then establish reserves in various counties.

The process of these reforms was very slow, which is again the difference between Li Zongren and Zhuang Jihua, Si Zongren was more subdued through social organization; Zhuang Jihua appeared to be tougher, and even used the army to enforce it if necessary.

In two years, most of the grass changes began to bear fruit, the enthusiasm of the people was mobilized, the society began to be organized, and the reserve force was established, but the mistakes in the Zao Campaign gave Chiang Kai-shek an excuse to adjust the command system of the five theaters.

Both Li Zongren and Xu Zuyi actually knew very well that the defeat in the Battle of Suizao was just an excuse, and the real reason was that the strong forces in the Fifth Theater and hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers were in the hands of the leaders of the Gui faction who had long disagreed with Chiang Kai-shek's political views, which would not reassure Chiang Kai-shek in any case.

Zhuang Jihua's takeover of the Fifth War Zone was both expected and unexpected for Li Zongren. When Li Zhilong arrived in the Fifth War Zone, he visited Li Zongren several times and provided a list, hoping that Li Zongren could transfer these people to the Fifth War Zone, Li Zongren had this feeling at that time, but at that time Zhuang Jihua was being suppressed, and he thought that this was Zhuang Jihua preserving the backbone of the Zhuang family, so not only did he not refuse, but on the contrary, he was very happy, Zhuang Jihua used all the people who were practical personnel and had rich grassroots work experience, which could just solve the current shortage of cadres in the war zone.

"Degong, the Cultural Revolution took over, which is also a great luck in misfortune, and the social reform in the Five War Zones can continue to be promoted." Xu Zuyi comforted Li Zongren that the wide airport has not yet been completely completed, there is only one runway, and several migrant workers nearby are rushing to build a second runway day and night.

Li Zongren silently looked at the nearby planes, those are a few ships and worms, there are several field airfields near the mouth of the old river, the current sky is in the hands of the Chinese Air Force, the main force of the Japanese Air Force has long been transferred to the Pacific Ocean, the few remaining planes under the siege of the Chinese Air Force, long ago fled to the Beijing-Shanghai line, the kind of large-scale air battle in the Anti-Japanese War has been extremely rare, more often it is the Chinese Air Force soaring in the sky, unscrupulously bombing the Japanese army on the ground.

The situation on the battlefield is getting better and better, in this war, a group of brave and warlike Whampoa generals represented by Zhuang Jihua have grown up, Chiang Kai-shek is gradually and systematically replacing those veterans with these people, Hu Zongnan in the northwest, Yu Jishi in Burma, and now the most important and the most warlike one, the Whampoa student leaders, is coming.

"Maybe" Li Zongren's attitude is indispensable: "Yan Mou, the Cultural Revolution is still relatively easy to get along with, and he is a person who is never willing to defend, after he comes, Lao Jiang will pay more and more attention to the Five War Zones, I think you had better stay."

Knowing that Li Zongren was the same, Xu Zuyi also indicated that he wanted to be the same, hoping to continue to serve as Li Zongren's chief of staff, but Li Zongren never gave a positive answer, and today he finally answered this question positively.

Xu Zhiyi sighed slightly, Zhuang Jihua was easy to get along with in the past, but this time it was different from the past, before the person arrived, his cronies were transferred to the fifth war zone, it was obvious that after he came, he would have surgery in the war zone, whether he would leave himself, he was really not sure in his heart, it was better to follow Li Zongren to Tianshui. "I'm a place to retire" Li Zongren's casual demeanor was full of bitterness: "Brother Yanmou, your talent shouldn't be buried." Xu Zuyi sighed softly: "Duke De doesn't dislike me." Li Zongren shook his head: "You know, I want to take some people from the Fifth War Zone, on the one hand to make room for the Cultural Revolution, and on the other hand, to clean up the environment by the way." ”

Li Zongren said these two points a little vaguely, but Xu Zuyi understood that among the people he took away, some of them were those he wanted to take away, and some of them were causing trouble in the Five War Zone, so he simply took them away "Leave Zhuang Jihua a relatively clean Fifth War Zone."

Several black dots appeared in the sky, the sound of the engine roaring gradually became obvious, the escort fighters circled in the sky, the transport plane in the middle landed on the airport, Li Zongren and Xu Zuyi drove to the plane by car, Zhuang Jihua had already got off the plane and stood by the gangway to wait. "Duke De, Brother Yan Mou, it's too troublesome." Zhuang Jihua didn't expect that it was Li Zongren and Xu Zuyi who got out of the car, and he rubbed his hands a little embarrassed. Li Zongren laughed twice: "If you want to change someone else, I will definitely not come here." "To be favored by the Duke of De, Zhuang is fortunate to have three lives." Zhuang Jihua said that Gong Xiuhua and others also got off the plane, and they stood aside and quietly watched the three of them chatting.

Li Zongren turned around and walked towards the car, Zhuang Jihua walked side by side with him, Xu Zuyi was slightly half a body behind, Li Zongren said as he walked: "The chairman of the committee chose you to take over the Fifth War Zone, because you have a discerning eye, and the battle of Suizao has not been fought well, and the morale of the war zone is a little depressed, and you are needed as a victorious general to boost morale." ”

"Duke De is too modest, the horse has lost its front hoof, everyone has it, the Fifth War Zone is still under the command of the Jiangbei Command, and I am a subordinate of Duke De." Zhuang Jihua was a little excited, the Fifth War Zone was the target he had chosen a long time ago, even if Chiang Kai-shek didn't do it, he would find a way to get this position.

Walking to the car, Li Zongren opened the car door and made a gesture of please, but Zhuang Jihua used daylight to ask him to get on first, Li Zongren did not shirk, bent down and sat up, Zhuang Jihua got into the car, Xu Zuyi walked to the car behind, Wu Ziniu walked over quickly, sat in the co-pilot, Li Zongren's adjutant was stunned, Li Zongren casually told him to go to the car behind.

After the car started, Li Zongren said leisurely: "Wen Cui is too modest, what is going on in the Jiangbei Headquarters, you and I know it in our hearts." ”

Zhuang Jihua turned his head to look at Li Zongren, and finally shook his head: "Duke De may be too pessimistic, so let's do it, I will talk to you in detail later, the Jiangbei Command is by no means idle." ”

Li Zongren turned his head and glanced at Zhuang Jihua, Zhuang Jihua smiled at him meaningfully, Li Zongren was a little puzzled, Zhuang Jihua did not continue, but changed the topic. "I heard that Degong vigorously promoted social reform in the war zone, and there are too few people in the party-state who can have this vision."

Li Zongren couldn't help but laugh twice: "Wen Cui, you are praising yourself, the social reform I am implementing is not a copy of your Shangqiu, but unfortunately I can't control the party Gao, I can only implement it through non-governmental organizations, and there are many obstacles."

"Well, there are always some people who cling to their private interests, ignore the interests of the country and society, and don't need to be soft on these people, if they have a way to live, there will be no hope for the country." Zhuang Jihua was unceremoniously, and his tone was full of murderousness: "Social rosegrass is as important as anti-Japanese, even more important than anti-Japanese.

"It seems that you came with a knife, the Cultural Revolution has changed with time, and today is different from the past." Li Zongren shook his head slightly, he has also seen clearly over the years that Zhuang Jihua's biggest help comes from Chiang Kai-shek's support, whether it is in Chongqing or Shangqiu, but can Chiang Kai-shek still support him as much as he did before kA? Li Zongren didn't see it that way, so he wanted to secretly help Zhuang Jihua and take away some trouble.

It was his independent decision to secretly help Zhuang Jihua, and in his opinion, Zhuang Jihua was different from Chen Cheng, he and Chiang Kai-shek were not politically aligned, and it was possible for the two sides to cooperate in the future, at least if necessary, to give them a talk to the Gui family.

"Degong has a keen eye" Zhuang Jihua showed a smile: "I know in my heart, Degong has laid a good foundation for me, I will not make major changes, in times of war, stability is the most important." "Oh, Zhicao, then I'll see."

The two talked and laughed, looking at the scenery outside the car window, the sedan entered a section of the road that was being renovated, and the military police in front of the road saw their convoy arrive, and hurriedly stopped the other vehicles and let them pass first.

On the side of the highway, countless migrant workers were busy on the construction site with pickaxes, and Li Zongren saw that Zhuang Jihua was looking at these migrant workers with great interest. "Roads are being built in the war zone, and this is part of it, on a larger scale on the Sichuan-Hubei border. Li Zongren explained.

Zhuang Jihua nodded, after the mechanized army arrived, transportation was particularly important, Li Zongren sighed again: "We started late, the Japanese army's degree of mechanization is much higher than ours, so not only did we not build transportation, but we had to destroy transportation, and it was not until after the United States entered the war that we began to build roads on a large scale." ”

Li Zongren said the truth, Zhuang Jihua did not comment, the car became bumpy, the two did not speak for a while, and after a long time, it gradually flattened. After this toss, both of them lost interest in talking.

The car did not enter the city, the headquarters is located in the west of the city, the Luliu River flows into the Han River not far east of Zhuangzi, the transportation is convenient, it is an important commodity distribution center in the Laohekou area.

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