The two chatted while walking, Zhuang Jihua wanted to bring Zhang Xueliang to the office, but Zhang Xueliang didn't mean it, he wanted to see more of this military camp, so he walked along the edge of the field, and he had to accompany him.

The trainers of the escort team came according to the training outline formulated by Zhuang Jihua, but even so, Zhuang Jihua and Du Yuming were tired enough, if nothing else, because there were only a few thousand real veterans in the army, and more than 10,000 of the 15,000 veterans were veterans who had been in the army for one year, and then excluding the veterans who were on duty outside, there was not much left, so from Du Yuming down to those company platoon commanders, they all came to the front line to train the troops, seriously Fan Hanjie soaked in the training ground all day long, and Zhuang Jihua and Du Yuming stepped up the training of non-commissioned officers, The training period for these non-commissioned officers is three months, so Zhuang Jihua is very busy, he has resigned from the government affairs class and the party affairs training group, and handed over all these to Yang Yongtai.

Along the path paved by the carbon slag, the group watched while walking, Zhuang Jihua casually introduced, but Zhang Xueliang was silent, these recruits were just training in the queue, they belonged to the junior level of the primary, there was nothing to look at at all, he didn't know what Zhang Xueliang wanted to do.

"Cultural Revolution, I heard that there are many former Northeast Volunteers and Rehe Volunteers in your escort team, is that so?" Zhang Xueliang suddenly asked.

"That's right, my adjutant Lu Ruishan is the former Northeast Volunteer Army, Ruishan," Zhuang Jihua turned around and shouted back, Lu Ruishan quickly ran in front of him, Zhuang Jihua pointed at him and said to Zhang Xueliang: "He is from Lu Ruishan, a regiment commander of the Gong Changhai Army, brave and good at fighting, and has made great contributions in the Battle of Rehe." ”

Zhang Xueliang looked at Lu Ruishan's sturdy body and dark face, and nodded with satisfaction: "Good look, worthy of being a child of my Northeast, at first glance, he is a heroic and warlike person." ”

To Zhuang Jihua's surprise, Lu Ruishan, who has always been reckless and not good at words, replied in a crepe: "A good fighter must also have a good future commander, 30 million compatriots in the Northeast, hundreds of thousands of soldiers in the Northeast Army are actually good at fighting, but unfortunately there is no good commander, so I have to sit and watch my father and fellow villagers wail under the iron hooves of the little devil." ”

Zhuang Jihua immediately interrupted him: "Shut up, Young Marshal Zhang is not a cowardly and cold-blooded person, how can you talk nonsense here, get out!" ”

Zhang Xueliang's face was flushed, and his guard chief was angry, and he opened his mouth and scolded: "Ma Labazi is hungry, what are you crazy about, you dare to be powerless against the young marshal, and we have the ability to compete." ”

Lu Ruishan did not flinch, and glared at the chief guard with two eyes: "Okay, Ma Labazi, just like you, I can clean up three of them with one hand, whoever the fuck loses, who is raised by the eldest girl." ”

Zhuang Jihua was on fire: "Lu Ruishan! Return to camp immediately and stay in confinement for three days! ”

"Yes." Lu Ruishan saluted and turned to leave, but Zhang Xueliang opened his mouth to stop him: "Wait," and then said to Zhuang Jihua: "The Cultural Revolution, people will humiliate themselves, and later generations will humiliate them, he scolded right, I, Zhang Xueliang, am incompetent, I'm sorry for the Northeast fathers and villagers, I ask for a favor, I don't blame him for this." ”

Looking at Zhang Xueliang's sincere eyes, Zhuang Jihua was silent for a while before saying, "Okay, I can forgive him, but, Ruishan, you have to apologize to the young marshal." ”

Lu Ruishan's neck twisted, and Wu Ziniu hurriedly came out and replied, "Don't be tough, apologize quickly." ”

"Apologize, why apologize," Lu Ruishan shouted with red eyes: "When we retreated from Heilongjiang, how many brothers died along the way, those who were killed, those who starved to death, those who committed suicide after being wounded, from Heilongjiang to Rehe, there were dead bodies along the way, where was he at that time?" As he spoke, he pointed at the chief guard: "Boy, aren't you ruthless?" Where were you then? The little devil's plane was bombed, the cavalry chased and slashed, and the brothers only had a dozen bullets, but no one did a bad job, and they still fought with the little devils, what about you? How many devils have you killed? Lao Tzu squatted in the confinement room and apologized to him, something without bones! Don't! ”

After finishing speaking, Lu Ruishan walked towards the Military Justice Department without looking back, leaving a crowd full of stunned people, Zhuang Jihua was a little stunned, he didn't expect Lu Ruishan to explode at this time. His brain started quickly, how to round the field for him, these guards of Zhang Xueliang are by no means good, the guard chief blushed, his two eyes stared at Zhang Xueliang, as long as he gave an order, he would pounce and tear Lu Ruishan to pieces.

"Good man! Good man! Zhang Xueliang's exclamation broke the silence and relaxed the tense air: "If you dare to scold me in person, you must be a tiger general on the battlefield." ”

"The young marshal is self-conscious, broad-minded, Zhuang admires it to the fullest, Zhuang is not strict in governing the army, please forgive the young marshal." Zhuang Jihua also breathed a sigh of relief, to be honest, if Zhang Xueliang really wanted to investigate, he would only have to block hard, so that the two sides would completely tear their faces, and it would be difficult to say what the situation would be in the future.

Zhang Xueliang shook his head and said sadly: "If I want to say forgiveness, it should be that I ask the compatriots of the whole country for forgiveness, ask for the forgiveness of the 30 million fathers and villagers in the Northeast, and ask the soldiers of the Northeast Army for forgiveness." I have the hatred of my family and the country, but I can't repay it, and I also caused the officers and soldiers of the Northeast Army to leave their hometowns and be scolded by the people, I really have no shame to face them, and now I don't even have the qualifications to return to my hometown to worship my ancestors. ”

Zhuang Jihua smiled bitterly, knowing that the words in Beiping had reached his ears, but at that time his purpose was to provoke the generals and arouse the fighting spirit of the Northeast Army from top to bottom. ”

Zhang Xueliang patted him on the shoulder painfully and interrupted his words: "I don't mean to blame you in the slightest, this is a pain in my heart, and I tear out my heart every day." ”

"Since that's the case, then ......," Zhuang Jihua asked hesitantly, "Why didn't you order resistance?" He said that he only has more than 10,000 people in the northeast, and even if he transfers troops from Beiping, he will be in time.

Zhang Xueliang was silent for a while and shook his head and said: "No, it was a mistake in our judgment, the situation was very complicated at that time, and we didn't know whether I really wanted to provoke war or strife, so I issued an order not to resist, and it had nothing to do with the chairman." ”

Zhuang Jihua looked at him, wanting to see from his face the truth of his words, whether he was taking responsibility for Chiang Kai-shek, but he was disappointed, Zhang Xueliang's face was nothing but pain. Maybe only they know, Zhuang Jihua thought in his heart.

The two walked slowly in silence, and after a while they walked to the small training ground behind the camp, which was a tactical training ground for veterans, and a group of veterans were conducting tactical training under the leadership of officers.

The soldiers were divided into several groups and pressed towards the enemy's true meaning from several directions, the mortars behind adjusted the firing angle under the command of the artillery observer, and the heavy machine gunners constantly adjusted the firing angle to provide cover for the attacking infantry.

Although there was no gunfire, the soldiers on the training ground were murderous, jumping over and over, the assault team was always armed with submachine guns, the cover group was composed of snipers and light machine guns, and the support team followed the assault group to attack.

Zhuang Jihua looked at the soldiers on the training ground and felt that there was still a lack of actual combat atmosphere, and the soldiers could not feel the atmosphere of the battlefield in this kind of training, and it was difficult to train the battlefield survivability.

Zhuang Jihua looked thoughtful, but Zhang Xueliang was very interested: "What kind of subject is this?" ”

"Company and platoon attack tactical training," Zhuang Jihua said, "This is formulated in accordance with the new training outline, and the company and platoon attack are divided into assault group, support group, and cover group; The assault group is responsible for opening the breach, the cover group is responsible for providing cover for the assault, and the support group is responsible for consolidating the breach and advancing in depth to the enemy. ”

"Even the platoon is armed with mortars?" Zhang Xueliang asked in surprise.

"The company is armed with three Type 60 mortars and two heavy machine guns." Zhuang Jihua said: "The army's support weapon is a grenadier, this weapon is too powerful, we decided to give up, the current mortar needs four people, we are developing a recoilless gun that only needs two people, if this kind of artillery is successful, it can easily destroy the little devil's tank." ”

Zhuang Jihua's words undoubtedly showed that this army was fighting against the Yue army, and Zhang Xueliang was immediately attracted.

"Cultural Revolution, the chairman said that Yucheng is the base for preparing for the War of Resistance, can you tell me about it?" Zhang Xueliang said.

Zhuang Jihua turned his head to look at him and nodded solemnly: "The chairman is right, we have been preparing in Yucheng for three years, including the special steel mill put into operation last month, we have built three steel-making plants, with an annual output of 500,000 tons of steel, including 80,000 tons of special steel, and these three steel plants are still expanding, and the production capacity will be doubled in two years to reach an annual output of one million tons of steel, although compared with the capital, it is still only 20% of them; But even so, our situation has improved considerably.

In the past three years, we have built 43 factories of various kinds, capable of producing medium and formal rifles, all kinds of light and heavy machine guns, 60, 82, 120 mortars, anti-aircraft guns, cannons and howitzers, anti-aircraft guns, anti-aircraft machine guns, aircraft factories, automobile and tank factories under construction, all the technology is imported from abroad, in the past three years we have carried out social transformation, in the 16 counties of Yucheng to build a reserve, now only I give an order, the 16 counties of the appropriate age can immediately enlist in the army, An army of 100,000 people can be formed in half a month. ”

Zhang Xueliang was a little dizzy, he felt a bit like a fantasy talk, the foundation of the Northeast back then was built by their father and son generations in nearly 20 years, but here in just three years to complete their 20 years of work.

Zhuang Jihua saw Zhang Xueliang's doubts, he smiled proudly, walked over and waved at the company commander who was training, the company commander immediately stopped training, turned around and ran towards him, Zhuang Jihua commanded a few words, he turned around and ran back.

Zhang Xueliang didn't know what Zhuang Jihua was doing, after a while, Zhang came with artillery and heavy machine guns, Zhuang Jihua said to Zhang Xueliang: "Young marshal, please see, madeinchina, made in China, if the young marshal still has doubts, I will ask you to go to the factory another day." ”

Zhang Xueliang looked at the inscription on the barrel, the inscription was stained with some mud, it was already a little old, he stroked it lightly, nodded and stood up: "It's unimaginable, the Cultural Revolution, it's not that I don't believe it, the industrial system in the Northeast is the best and most complete in China, but that is the efforts of our father and son for nearly 20 years, and you only took three years, it's a miracle." ”

Zhuang Jihua was a little proud in his heart, indeed, if you look at it from the perspective of the previous life, this national defense industrial system is still very fragile, the output is still very insufficient, and these weapons are not remarkable, but this is what he created in a poor and white land, and these dozens of factories will support China's eight-year war of resistance.

Then Zhang Xueliang asked about their output, Zhuang Jihua did not have him, and told them in detail one by one, Zhang Xueliang now understood why Chiang Kai-shek asked him to ask Zhuang Jihua for weapons.

"Cultural Revolution, this is a warrant from the chairman of the committee." Zhang Xueliang took out Chiang Kai-shek's order from his bosom and handed it to Zhuang Jihua.

Zhuang Jihua was dumbfounded when he took it, it was over, he was fooled.

(To be continued)