The highway mileage from Zhenjiang to Nanjing is only 68 kilometers, and the whole journey is relatively flat sandy road, which is regarded as a relatively wide and standard highway in the south of the Yangtze River, but because there are many cities and towns passing through on the road, the section of the Yangtze River below Nanjing is still the confrontation between the northern and southern armies, so the manpower and animal powered vehicles transporting grain and other commodities are flowing endlessly, and the five large and small cars of the An Yi Regiment drove for nearly four and a half hours before they vaguely saw the city wall of Nanjing.

At this time, the car drivers definitely belong to the high-tech profession, An Yi's reading force group of more than 6,000 people, only two sergeants of the logistics unit originally drove a burst of wood-burning steam cars, the other six drivers were selected from the trainees who had been trained for less than half a month, and the driver of the second truck was very talented in driving, and the third battalion commander Chen Zhibiao personally drove it, and sat on the side with Xia Jian, who was addicted to smoking, smoking and chatting, which was also one of the reasons for the extremely slow speed along the way.

An Yi drove the black American Dodge sedan presented by President Jiang in front, and the other four trucks had already been painted grass green by An Yi's order, and the doors on both sides were also painted with blue and white paint. It means that this car belongs to the Second Division of the First Army of the National Revolutionary Army, but few people know what this means. The Dodge sedan driven by An Yi was much more convenient, and when he took over, the car was hung with a special license plate for the General Headquarters with white characters on a blue background, numbered Army 239, so it was unimpeded all the way out of the Zhenjiang Defense Area.

When they arrived at the Longtan military and police checkpoint, the largest in the east of Nanjing, the convoy was finally stopped by heavily armed military police, and the gendarmes hesitated for a moment when they saw the license plate of the car belonging to the General Headquarters, and finally solemnly stepped forward and asked to pull over to show their documents and orders.

An Yi only had the certificate and did not have an order, and handed over his major general certificate very politely, and the two military police lieutenants who showed off their might saw the polite An Yi, and were so frightened that they hurriedly stood up and saluted, greeted loudly, and hurriedly returned the documents and apologized repeatedly, which immediately alarmed the two leading officers in the roadside house.

An Yi, who didn't want to be troubled, saw that one of the school officials was Lieutenant Colonel Huang Wenchao, a senior who graduated from the second phase of the heavy education department, so he had to open the door and get out of the car, saluting with a smile:

"Senior Brother Huang, I didn't expect to meet you here, it's really a blessing!"

Huang Wenchao, who was also a native of Guangdong with Mr. Zhongshan, hurriedly saluted, and then strode forward and held An Yi's outstretched hand tightly: "Xiao Yi, why do you have time to come to Nanjing...... Why are you still wearing this dress? If you don't pay attention to your general's badge, you really think it's the driver...... Don't blame my brothers, haha! ”

Gu Changfeng saw An Yi talking warmly with the officers at the checkpoint, and he didn't have the slightest intention of getting in the car and leaving, so he opened the car door and walked over, and met with the friendly troops with Xia Jian, who came from behind, politely took out a cigarette and handed it to everyone, and lit a cigarette and smoked it beautifully.

Since there were several non-smokers in the back of the car, Qiu Mingxuan, Ding Molan and Zhang Ruyi, Gu Changfeng and An Yi could only hold back along the way in order to avoid motion sickness of the two beauties, and they just took the opportunity to get over their addiction to smoking.

Huang Wenchao and Major Li were also very happy to see Gu Changfeng, Xia Jian, and other well-known cattle in the whole army so polite, and a few people stood on the side of the road and chatted happily.

Seeing this, Qiu Mingxuan and the others in the car also got out of the car, stretched their waists, and activated the meridians.

Although Huang Wenchao had already known about the recruitment of female soldiers in the army and the An Yi Department, he was still surprised to see that Ding Molan and Zhang Ruyi were so smart and beautiful, and after asking a few words, he sighed in a low voice:

"Most of the thousands of student soldiers who were transferred from Kunshan to the Nanjing camp were almost gone on the second day of the Qing Party, and even fewer female soldiers were left, and only about 30 were put into the radio training course held by the party headquarters.

"Alas, I only have more than 80 female soldiers left." An Yi smiled helplessly, and then changed the topic: "Senior brother, how is the security in Nanjing City?" ”

Huang Wenchao shook his head: "In this extraordinary period, do you still need me to elaborate?" During this period, a few gunshots rang out from time to time on the streets, causing a rather tense atmosphere, with prisons large and small overcrowded, many newspapers being closed down and banned, and girls with slightly shorter hair would be stopped and strictly interrogated and searched.

Presumably you also know that the officers and soldiers under the command of General Cheng Qian are uneven, many of them are still recruited soldiers and mountain bandits, taking this opportunity, some people loot money, molest women, and the slightest disobedience will be stained into red bandits, fists and feet, and warlords and robbers are not much different, many times even the transport vehicles of various departments of our headquarters in and out of Nanjing City they have to make it difficult, for this reason, our gendarmerie inspector team almost fought with them several times, his mother's! ”

"Huh!? The Sixth Army, which was disabled in Nanchang, was so awesome? Granny's ...... Looks like I'm going to have to put up the flag, or if something happens, it's going to be a problem. ”

An Yi instructed Gu Changfeng to go and put up the model battalion flags on each car, and then politely bid farewell to Huang Wenchao and the others:

"Senior brother, it's not too early, the younger brother has to submit the urgent mail to the headquarters, and he also has to pick up people at the Xiaguan Wharf, so I'll leave for the time being."

Huang Wenchao enthusiastically sent An Yi to the car, and was full of praise for the fierce officers and soldiers who worked on each truck for one shift:

"It's worthy of the soldiers you bring, look at this majestic and high-spirited appearance, even if the bastards of the Sixth Army are one out of ten, they may not necessarily be the opponents of your department...... If you need help with anything, you can go to the gendarmerie headquarters on the edge of the drum tower, you are familiar with several of our bosses there, if it weren't for my military affairs, I would definitely have a drink with you tonight. ”

Bidding farewell to Huang Wenchao, the convoy slowly drove towards Nanjing City, and what was seen along the way was as heavily guarded as Huang Wenchao said, and the closer to Nanjing City, the more severe the inspection.

Outside the city, Qixia and Taiping, two military police posts, received a call from Huang Wenchao, raised the rails early and saluted, and watched the convoy of An Yi and his party slowly drive by, admiring the model battalion flag on the car and the well-equipped guard officers and soldiers who exuded an invisible murderous aura all over their bodies.

As soon as the convoy passed the checkpoint, all the officers and soldiers chattered and discussed, and many people said with great regret that they could not see General An Yi's dignity, but this also saved An Yi and his party a lot of trouble.

The convoy drove into the Grand Mansion Hotel on Taiping North Road, Qiu Mingxuan chartered the entire East Garden according to An Yi's instructions, everyone took a short rest, and then drove to the Taikoo Wharf in Xiaguan outside the Rujiang Gate, patiently waiting for the arrival of Lao Dao and his party.

Forty minutes passed, and the passenger ship from Nanchang to Nanjing, which belongs to the Yangtze River Shipping Company, slowly docked. Since the above routes in Nanjing were already under the control of the revolutionary army at this time, the ship carried a large number of officers and soldiers wearing the uniforms of the revolutionary army and political axe officials wearing long robes and horse coats and badges on their chests.

As the flow of passengers continued to pour out, the old man in the green robe and long beard Yu Angxuan leisurely disembarked with his hands behind his back, followed by more than 50 revolutionary soldiers in neat uniforms and alert and sturdy.

An Yi looked at the shore and was immediately happy, walking out of the old road of the steel structure approach bridge and Yongdao, on the left hand side was Huang Yingwu, who had the rank of lieutenant colonel on the leader, and on the right hand side was the captain and deputy of the model battalion machine gun company who had just recovered from his wounds in the Lanxi Battle - Qi Xiuping, who was a head taller than everyone else, and the second lieutenant officers who followed behind him turned out to be Xiaojiu Lin Yaodong, Chen Mian and Chen Yu, the junior brothers of Lin Xudong, the boss of Lincun in Guangzhou. I don't know what the background of the person who came, there were so many guards and entourage, and a group of people all had bright eyes, and they were all walking in a tiger's foot, and at first glance they were ordinary martial arts Huijiazi, so no one dared to step forward to interrogate, and let the old man with a face and aura calmly walk up to the dock through the exit.

"Old ......"

An Yi's heart was hot, he couldn't say any more, and hurriedly strode forward with dozens of entourages such as Gu Changfeng and Xia Jian, and respectfully gave Lao Shoudao a solemn military salute.

Lao Dao's eyes were slightly moist, but he looked at the sky, looking extremely arrogant, and dozens of people behind Lao Dao stood straight, all of them saluted the young and handsome An Yi with excited and respectful faces.

This peculiar scene, suddenly stunned the surrounding passengers, a closer look, it turned out to be a general to a Taoist casual clothes poor people saluted, and then they began to discuss, the crowd did not know who exclaimed, "Isn't this General An Yi of the model battalion", which immediately caused a burst of twitching, hundreds of enthusiastic soldiers and civilians on and off the dock stopped excitedly to watch, and smiled at An Yi in the middle.

An Yi held Lao Dao's hands tightly, nodded to this brother, and greeted that brother, who knew that the soldiers and civilians around him were gathering more and more.

Seeing this scene, the seven or eight gendarmes on duty on the dock discussed a little, quickly rushed into the crowd and squeezed in front of An Yi, saw the name tag on An Yi's chest, and hurriedly saluted, and very thoughtfully shouted for An Yi and his party to open the way, and sent them to the car on the side of the road before saluting and saying goodbye.

"Get in the car!"

Huang Yingwu sent Lao Dao into the back seat of the car, straightened up and gave a loud order, waiting for all the brothers to climb into the carriage, and then got into the car and sat next to Lao Dao:

"Boss, Tiger Head, I miss you to death! The more than 2,000 recruits trained in Lao Nanchang are annoying, and most of the more than 300 brothers want to return to the front line to follow the bosses to fight the world! ”

Gu Lao Er in the deputy seat turned his head: "No, Ying Wu?" I heard that you just married the eldest granddaughter of the old Nanchang Zhou Dashan, and you got tired of it so quickly? ”

An Yi, who was driving, couldn't help laughing, and asked Lao Dao loudly: "Old Dao, why don't you bring Ermao to play?" Is my second aunt okay? ”

The happy old man replied calmly: "Ermao is studying at home, your second aunt is not bad, she just can't be idle with a big belly, she is with Xia Jian's mother-in-law and big-bellied daughter-in-law all day long, leading more than 100 daughters-in-law of Lao Nanchang to fiddle with the 100 sewing machines, and the military uniforms made are also a little good, and you can move into the new factory in another month."

Old Nanchang has long been different from what it used to be, with five or six more smooth roads, with buses that go directly to Nanchang City, and there are more recruit recruitment offices and training bases around Chengbi Lake, which have been made beautiful with the strong support of Commander-in-Chief Jiang and General Yu Feipeng.

We built two kilometers west of the city around the new residential area around the price doubled, under the circle of more than 2,800 acres of wasteland is very suitable for building a house, it seems that your guy has a good eye, let you accidentally occupy a piece of phoenix-shaped feng shui treasure land that secretly combines the five elements, after retaining the big trees and stone hills, the road was built, like a park, quiet and pleasant, and now it is really as you expected the population surge, just the ramie textile factory that is installing and debugging the machine, recruiting and training workers as high as 1,500 people, All of them live in the eleven rows of two-story dormitory buildings, and when the seven or eight factories that are being built with all their strength are completed and put into operation, I estimate that at least four or five thousand workers will have to be added this year, which is a big change! ”

After chatting for a while, the convoy had already driven into the hotel parking lot. At this time, Chang Chang, the elder of the logistics unit, and Qiu Mingxuan had already booked ten tables of banquets, and after the brothers went to the room to wash up, they all gathered in the large dining room on the first floor, and gathered together lively, raising their wine glasses to talk about their parting feelings.

As soon as the reunion dinner was halfway through the reunion dinner, Major General Yu Jishi, the attendant of Commander-in-Chief Jiang, led several entourages to arrive in a hurry, and An Yi, who had been informed, immediately led Xia Jian, Gu Changfeng, and Chen Zhibiao to greet them.

When they met, the guests and hosts were very happy, and chatted a few words in a hurry, Yu Jishi politely walked to Lao Dao to salute and greet, Lao Dao was very polite and humble, and beckoned Yu Jishi and others to sit down and chat.

Yu Jishi apologized and explained that he couldn't sit down, this time he was ordered to come, and An Yi had to go with him immediately to meet the principal.

An Yi didn't dare to slack off when he heard this, and hurriedly ordered Xia Jian and Gu Lao Er to accompany the brothers to have a few more drinks, followed Yu Jishi out of the restaurant alone, and climbed into the back seat of the car under the steps.

The car drove out of the Grand Mansion Hotel and turned south, An Yi looked at Yu Jishi, who couldn't stop wiping his sweat beside him, and said with a smile:

"I didn't expect the senior brother to come so quickly, before the junior brother went to the dock to pick up people, you were not there when you called the attendant's room, so you could only leave your name and number, and I thought that I would have to wait at least until the afternoon to have a chance to receive the notice."

"When you called, I happened to meet with the principal to meet the guests of the American Consulate, and the people below did not dare to slack off when they received your call, and hurriedly rushed to the hotel next to the Tianwang Mansion to report to me, I knew that you had nothing to do but go to the Three Treasures Palace, so I reported to the principal who accompanied the American guests to the meal. The principal was very happy to know that you had come to Nanjing, and immediately ordered me to pick you up and wait in the office, and it is estimated that you will be back soon. ”

Yu Jishi then asked, "What emergency military situation made you leave the war zone without permission?" Why don't you send a telegram first? With that, he looked at An Yi with some reproach.

An Yi knew that he had indeed violated discipline by doing so, so he shrugged his shoulders a little awkwardly, and then began to patiently explain the purpose of his visit to Nanjing this time.

(To be continued)