A major officer was guiding on the side, and when he saw Shaofan coming, he hurriedly ran over and saluted: "Report to the regiment leader!" The 1st Battalion of Recruits is training in melee combat and assassination. Please instruct the regimental commander! ”

"Good" Shaofan said: "Keep training!" ”

"Yes!" The officer said. Shaofan looked at the major officer and said, "Junjie! Walk with me. ”

"Yes" Huang Junjie took out a pack of cigarettes from his waist and handed them to Shaofan: "Does the regiment commander have any action tomorrow?" ”

"Hmmm! Junjie: Do you see the current situation of our soldiers and can we launch an operation? Shaofan asked.

"Tuanza! Scrappy but inexperienced! Huang Junjie said.

Huang Junjie was originally in the Northeast Army, when he heard that Zhang Zuolin was there, he also worked with the troops of the Second Eastern Crusade of the National Revolutionary Army, but he was still a new recruit, but after the 918 incident, he left the Northeast Army to make a living everywhere, and when the National Youth League was established, he was the first soldier who was not from Huangpu to sign up for officers, so Shaofan had a deep influence on him, and later learned that he was a student of Jiangnan Jiangwutang, and saw that he also had a hand in leading soldiers, so he became the commander of the first battalion of recruits.

At this time, I saw a soldier running over and said, "Report to the regiment commander!" The reconnaissance team sent to Gao Chun returned. ”

"Good!" Shaofan said: "I'll go to the headquarters immediately." ”

"No need!" I saw that the sky was blocked not far away; SUN Zhiyu; Bai Xiaolong and the others all walked over. Zhiyu said: "I think tomorrow's operation will be canceled." ”

"Why?" Shaofan asked.

Sun Zhiyu said: "Three days ago, the 12th Division was ordered to garrison Gaochun, and Chen Zeen's division headquarters was in the county government of Gaochun. Just an hour ago, Chen Zeen had already led the 12th Division into Gaochun. ”

"Humph!" Shaofan sneered: "The central government gave the order three days ago, and we didn't know until his troops were stationed. This unit didn't take our National Youth League seriously at all. ”

"Captain! Two days ago, the chairman's chamberlain's office telegraphed the garrison in the Gaochun area, but we didn't have a radio, so we ...... said.

Shaofan said to himself: "Do you really want me to borrow the hands of the four elements to form a force? ”

"Captain! Don't hesitate, the central government just won't give us a way to live, and now there are four elements to subsidize, and we can be regarded as an endless road. Bai Xiaolong said.

Chen Chen also walked from the side at this time, put the check for two million US dollars into Shaofan's hand and said: "Shaofan, as long as you agree, Sixing can equip all your troops with the latest German-style weapons and artillery baggage within a month." ”

"A month?" The people around asked in unison.

Chen Chen said: "Yes! One month! Do you know that not long ago, Yan Xishan and a German ** fire merchant had a large order, which was a new German equipment for the reorganization division, but the equipment arrived in Tianjin Dagang, and the Jin Sui Army did not want it because of financial problems. The German arms dealer could not transport this batch of arms back to Germany, so it was shelved in the salt warehouse stored in Dagang in Tianjin, and the arms dealer was begging my father to find a buyer! ”

Shen Shaofan patted Chen Chen's shoulder and said, "Okay!" I'll leave it to you. ”

"No problem!" Chen Chen said with a smile: "I am now the logistics staff officer of the National Youth League, and I should serve. ”

Shaofan said: "Okay! This matter is so decided, I will arrange for two people to go to Tianjin together. ”

After the 12th Division was stationed in Gaochun, Shaofan also focused on the formation of troops, and with the full support of the four elements, the National Youth League was made decent within two months, with a strength of 20,550 people, and five main battalions with a total of 6,250 people; two battle columns of 6,800 people; 5,000 people in the organ column and a guard company; Special Service Company; reconnaissance company; Battery; The engineer company has a total of 2,500 men, all equipped with German equipment.

The establishment of the National Youth League is 5 battalions, 3 verticals, 5 companies and 1 finger, and one finger is the headquarters. Shen Shaofan served as the head of the regiment; Blocking the sky and letting the deputy head of the regiment; Sun Zhiyu served as the chief of staff of the regiment headquarters and the captain of the Huangpu pre-cadre column; Chen Chen served as deputy chief of staff and head of the organ column. 1st Battalion Commander Huang Junjie; Teng Hao, commander of the 2nd Battalion; Zhao Meng, commander of the 3rd Battalion; Zheng Xiaohu, commander of the 4th battalion; Yuan Feng, the commander of the 5th battalion, each battalion is based on the German troop formation, which is a 10-5-5 formation, that is, a squad of ten people; five shifts in one row; five rows and one company; Five companies and one battalion, each squad has two Czech ZB26 machine guns, each platoon is also equipped with two MG42 heavy machine guns, each company has a squad for mortars, and the squad is equipped with five mortars, except for the mortar with Mauser rifles, the rest of the soldiers are all MP40 submachine guns and waist scimitars. Song Qing, commander of the guard company; Duan Louyun, commander of the reconnaissance company; Zhang Liang, commander of the special service company, Bai Xiaolong, commander of the artillery company; Engineer Company Commander Li Hairong, Special Service Company; Guard Company; The main armament of the reconnaissance company was three Czech ZB26s per squad to compensate for the lack of firepower without MG42 heavy machine guns; mp40。 The guard company also kept the pistol platoon, and the fifty people in the platoon carried two Mauser pistols and MP40 platoon commander Qian Dabao was once rescued from the guillotine by Shaofan, so he was extremely loyal to Shaofan. The individual equipment of the special service company is in addition to the Czech ZB26; In addition to the MP40, there is also a Rum Z12 pistol and a compass; climbing ropes; Sleeping bags and other special equipment, and one sniper carrying a Mauser Z99 sniper rifle in each shift. The main equipment of the reconnaissance company is the same as that of the special service company, but there is a reinforced platoon in the reconnaissance company that integrates combat and technology, and they are surveying and mapping platoons, whose task is to survey, map and explore the actual situation in the theater of operations in order to provide operational parameters in wartime. The artillery company is equipped with dozens of German-style P34 mountain guns, and the individual soldier is a Mauser rifle. The organ column is a non-combat unit with a comprehensive configuration of organs, and it has finances; Inventory; Medical and other logistical support columns, of which only one rifle company is a guard unit with a certain combat effectiveness, but the organ column is together with the regimental command headquarters, and the regimental command headquarters has a staff room; telecommunications room; Intelligence room and other operational command systems as one of the departments. The National Youth League also has two powerful combat units, that is, the Whampoa Pre-Cadre Column and the Whampoa Teaching Column, and now there are Sun Zhiyu and Du Tianfang as captains for the time being, and both columns have three battalions of troops, which are equipped with the same strength as the main combat battalion, but the pre-cadre and teaching column is the main force for sending grass-roots officers to the troops. In just five months, an all-German armament force of more than 20,000 people appeared, Shaofan; Tianfang; Zhiyu and other officers of the National Youth League became proud in the army, and Chiang Kai-shek also suffered a dumb loss, so he had to give up, regarded it as the trump card of the future of the army, and began to allocate funds, in order to prevent the National Youth League from clashing with the troops around Nanjing, especially the 12th Division, he transferred it to Shanghai and Hengsha Island to garrison.

Chongming Island; Changxing Island; Hengsha Island is a dangerous pass at the confluence of the Yellow Sea and the Yangtze River, and it is also the three gateways to the Yangtze River, especially Hengsha Island is the first gate into the mouth of the river, originally Hengsha Island was guarded by the 45th Division of the 29th Army, and the 45th Division was transferred to the Shanghai Coastal Defense Line Heqing shortly ago. Hengsha Island is the smallest of the three islands, the population is not much, and there are six coastal defense facilities, namely Xinglong; Feng Le; Higashihama; Hip Hing; Fumin and Xinlian. Shaofan stationed five battalions in Xinglong; Feng Le; Higashihama; Hip Hing and Fu Min have transferred one battalion of troops from the pre-cadre column to the new alliance, and the rest of the troops are in the second line of defense. And their main task is training, Hengsha Island is indeed an ideal training place, rivers, mountains and rivers, everything has the National Youth League's series of training and exercise plans are being carried out step by step, on weekdays the troops are also strengthening the coastal defense positions, and are preparing to connect the five positions facing the mouth of the Yangtze River into a line.

Shen Shaofan walked on the beach, looked at the distant sunset on the beach, recalled the time of half a year in front of him, and couldn't help but smile.

The December breeze is howling, the waves are crashing against every rock on the beach, and the howl and the distant cannon sound merge into one, forming a unique year-end solo on Hengsha Island. The young National Youth League is growing up day by day, and no one can expect that kind of flying growth, not even Shaofan's father and brothers.

A military jeep was speeding on the beach, and Shaofan looked at the rushing jeep and stopped. In the past few days, he has always had a hunch in his heart that something will happen, and it is not an ordinary thing. A non-commissioned officer jumped out of the car and saluted Shaofan and said, "Report to the regiment commander!" Nanjing Emergency! ”

Shaofan took the telegram and looked at it with a sharp gaze and said, "Go back to the headquarters immediately!" As he spoke, he hurriedly got into the car.

The telegram asked Shaofan to take the spy company and immediately set off to Nanjing to accompany the chairman to Xi'an to supervise the war, and the telegram was very simple, but Shaofan understood that it was not simple at all. Xi'an's suppression of the Communist Party is a series of failures, and the Northeast Army is a passive sabotage against the Red Army in northern Shaanxi, what is the role of the principal ordering him to bring a spy company, is it to protect the principal? No! The Headmaster's Guard Gendarmerie Regiment is a well-equipped and well-trained guard regiment, why not? Because the principal wants to do something in Xi'an, he can't use a single soldier of the gendarmerie corps, so what does the principal want to do? This question has always been around his mind, until the Kuomintang retreated to Taiwan, he did not figure out what the principal wanted him and his spy company to do? After the liberation, at the gathering of classmates in the ninth phase of Huangpu, he learned from Jiang Linren that the principal sent him and his spy company to Xi'an to prepare to arrest Zhang Xueliang, the commander of the Northeast Army, but he never expected that Xi'an and his party did not succeed in arresting Zhang Xueliang, but a shootout between Huaqingchi and the Northeast Army made them stand out in the military and political circles.

There was a small military airfield on Hengsha Island, built inside the aviation school, which was used for training, and Shaofan and his troops boarded the plane to Nanjing. Shaofan specially brought the pistol platoon of the guard company with him, and transferred a platoon with skilled military quality and excellent thinking from the reconnaissance company to supplement the special service company. Shaofan looked at the blue sky and white clouds outside the window, and thought in his heart, he kept thinking about why the chairman of the committee went to Xi'an to ask him and his spies to go together?

November 26, 1936. At the Xi'an Railway Station, a train full of military supplies slowly stopped, and a team of officers and soldiers got out of a carriage. The cold and windy platform was filled with busy porters and soldiers, the sound of shouts and scattered footsteps looking particularly pale in the heavy snow.

"Assemble the team!" A lieutenant officer screamed at the sidelines.

Shen Shaofan stood on the side, leaning against the pillar of the platform, lit a cigarette, and the cold wind made him shiver from the cold, and hurriedly erected the collar of the tweed army coat. In the past 12 months, Xi'an is exceptionally cold, it seems that the wind outside the pass is whistling towards the pass, and the snow is blowing in the wind, making people unable to open their eyes. Shaofan's team of spies was ordered to arrive in Xi'an on November 28, those young men were all wearing military green tweed coats, wearing German-style ear-covering steel helmets, steel helmets with a pair of windscreens, a horizontal and vertical armed belt, their spirit was pierced, the waist on the right hand side was equipped with a Z12 pistol, the chest hung MP40 submachine gun, the left hand side was a bullet bag that could hold five shuttle ammunition, and on the back was a military backpack, Among them, there is a row of people wearing overcoats and military cotton hats, all of which are more than 180cm tall, carrying Mauser box guns, shouldering MP40 submachine gun pouches and putting them on their chests, this platoon is Shaofan's pistol platoon. However, it stands to reason that Shaofan's spy company is composed of five platoons, plus one platoon of the pistol platoon and the reconnaissance company, there should be seven platoons of troops, but the troops assembled at the railway station are only four platoons of troops, and Bai Xiaolong, the commander of the spy company, is not among them. In fact, Shaofan was afraid that something would change during this trip to Xi'an, so he secretly transferred the strength of the three platoons to a carriage, and there was a carriage led by Bai Xiaolong, and the secret operation was unexpected, and this special force had already gotten off the car not far from Xi'an, and began to secretly infiltrate and advance in the direction of Lintong. No one expected this move, not even Chiang Kai-shek himself, that it was this special forces that disrupted many of their plans on December 12.