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On 15 June 1928, the Nanjing Central Government announced to the world that China's reunification had been completed, and An Yi's Independent Division left Botou Town in Cangzhou on the same day. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

On the 17th, Yin Jinan, Lao Shoudao and more than 100 relatives and friends arrived in Pukou from Lao Nanchang on a passenger ship under the name of Jiangnan Group to greet eight families from Cangzhou, and then took two passenger ships to Lao Nanchang, and Hu Jialin led his own guard battalion to return together.

An Yi got off the bus in Xuzhou for a temporary stay to attend a military meeting held by the Huangpu First Department on 20 July.

Zhang Chengzhu, who was stationed in the cavalry camp on the shore of Yunlong Lake in Xuzhou, really did a good job; in just half a month, more than 30 henchmen sent out before going south brought back more than 3,800 cavalry of the Zhilu Army from Zhili, Shandong, and Henan, recruited more than 2,400 new soldiers, and the cavalry division rapidly expanded to 9,000 officers and men.

On the 18th, Zhang Chengzhu and Li Jinlong reported from Nanjing to receive resettlement money and military salaries, and when they saw eight more brand-new military trucks in the camp, they hurriedly asked where they came from. The quartermaster under his command replied that General An sent someone to send it yesterday, saying that it was distributed by the quartermaster logistics department of the General Headquarters for use by the cavalry division.

Zhang Chengzhu and Li Jinlong learned that An Yi had returned to Xuzhou, and immediately rushed to the camp in the north of the city, and it happened that An Yi accompanied a group of generals from Huangpu to visit the field hospital of the Independent Division.

Liu Zhi, Jiang Dingwen, Gu Zhutong, Hu Zongnan and others knew about Zhang Chengzhu's cavalry division, and they became familiar with each other after greetings. An Yi immediately explained in detail the battle of Suning, where Zhang Chengzhu led 4,000 iron cavalry to attack the officers and soldiers of the two divisions of Han Fuqu.

The Huangpu generals, who had never used cavalry to fight before, were extremely moved, and from Zhang Chengzhu's brilliant record of more than 1,000 casualties and annihilation of more than 6,000 enemies, they deeply understood the strong combat effectiveness of this iron cavalry, and had a little more understanding and respect for Zhang Chengzhu and Li Jinlong.

Walking down in a circle, it was already half past five in the afternoon, and An Yi invited a group of teachers and friends to a time-honored restaurant in the city for a drink. Half-drunk, Gu Zhutong asked half-jokingly and half-seriously: "Xiao Yi, I heard that your independent division is building a large number of buildings in the Liuhe military camp, and there is an extra cavalry regiment under your command?" ”

An Yi didn't dare to say that this was the pampering of Commander-in-Chief Jiang, and before leaving Nanjing on the 13th, he deliberately left a letter for himself and a special fund of 200,000 yuan for the expansion of the Liuhe camp.

"The Liuhe barracks was originally repaired by Sun Chuanfang on the basis of the inherent barracks of the late Qing army, and it has not been maintained for many years, and it has long been unusable. The younger brother really had no choice but to ask the logistics department to find a construction company from Nanjing City to repair it, so that the brothers under his command could be stationed with peace of mind, it was worth spending some money. As for the cavalry regiment of our independent division, it is still in the process of being reorganized, with only more than 900 people and only 750 war horses, which is still far from becoming an army. The principal said that he could try it and sum up the lessons learned, and he also instructed that the old Nanchang non-commissioned officer training base should be put into use as soon as possible, and it was necessary to train some cavalry for each army, so the younger brother was temporarily organized into a cavalry regiment! ”

Hu Zongnan put down the cup and said with a smile: "After the first group army retreats south, our first army is temporarily stationed in Xuzhou, and Chief Gu's Ninth Army is temporarily stationed in Bengbu.

Secondly, Senior Brother An came back to reorganize the independent division, and he took the lead in having a fully equipped artillery regiment, not to mention the surge in the number of officers and soldiers of this guy's independent division after returning from the Northern Expedition, and now he has the establishment of a cavalry regiment, and a field hospital whose scale and level can be called the head of the whole army. ”

The generals echoed in unison, their eyes were red, but Jiang Dingwen saw it very openly, and knew that An Yi had all the hard work he had put in, in addition to money, he also needed brains, and it was not something that anyone could do if he wanted to, so Jiang Dingwen did not have the slightest jealousy, nor did he want to continue to dwell on this matter, but felt that the young and beautiful female nurses he saw in the afternoon were more interesting: "Xiao Yi, where is the female soldier company you took the lead in forming in Zhenjiang?" ”

"More than 50 female nurses in the field hospital are from the original female soldier company, and more than a dozen have been sent to stay abroad by the younger brother."

An Yi saw everyone's ambiguous eyes, especially the envy that couldn't be hidden in Liu Zhi's eyes, and hurriedly explained: "Don't think that the little brother is easy, in the middle of last year, more than 80 female soldiers were transferred from Zhenjiang to Lao Nanchang, and the little brother sent ten of them to the radio training course held by the party department in accordance with their wishes and the actual needs of the army, and now they have not yet graduated, and the other fifteen people have a very good cultural foundation. After the opening of Jiangnan Medical College, he basically became a student.

Since the Northern Expedition in April, the younger brother took into account the needs of the front line, set up a temporary field hospital, and invited a few foreign professors to go to the front line with more than 100 students, and the result was quite large, saving hundreds of dying soldiers, but the expenses were also very large, not to mention the salary, the expenditure of medical equipment and drugs alone almost made the younger brother bankrupt, and the military commission and the general headquarters did not give the younger brother a penny, which was really overwhelming! After a while, the condition of the wounded stabilized, the field hospital had to be disbanded immediately, and the doctors, nurses, and students all returned to Lao Nanchang. ”

Liu Zhi shook his head and said with some regret: "It's better to keep it, it's a pity to dissolve like this!" Tomorrow the principal will come, I will tell the principal, how to keep it, the hospital of our First Army does not have such advanced and complete medical equipment, let alone the scale of this field hospital, there is no way to expand, now our two armies are not short of money, what is lacking is professional talents! ”

An Yi felt a pang in his heart, and could only explain hard: "My subordinates deeply feel the same way, and the establishment of their own field hospitals by each army and division is also a need for army construction, and it will have to be done sooner or later, but the current conditions are still difficult to achieve, take the temporary hospital of the independent division as an example, the six foreign experts are all temporarily hired, and most of the more than 100 nurses are also seconded from the old Nanchang Hospital, and the dozens of young nurses belonging to the army have entered the medical school for less than a year, and they still need four years of study to be competent."

I think that if each division wants to set up its own hospital, the best way is to go to the medical schools in Shanghai, Beijing, Suzhou and Hangzhou to recruit ready-made ones, which can come in handy and be more convenient and fast...... The subordinate Jiangnan Medical College has just been opened for less than a year, even if it produces talents, it will have to be a few years later, and it is far from a matter of a year and a half to train a qualified doctor, unlike soldiers, who can go up to recharge by pulling back a church from the street and putting a gun, saving people is far more complicated than killing people, just like this restaurant where we are, it was razed to the ground in a blink of an eye after a few shells, but it was not built for a year and a half. ”

The generals smiled slightly when they heard this, and they could all hear the meaning of An Yi's words, that is, he would never contribute his field hospital, and whoever of you wanted to have it should find a way by yourself, but everyone also thought that An Yi's statement was very reasonable, and this matter was indeed not urgent.

All the people present were smart people, and the topic after that was no longer entangled in the affairs of the independent division, while eating and talking, soon focused the problem on the disarmament plan that the General Headquarters was brewing, this time An Yi did not talk, but listened quietly, watched quietly, and found that in addition to Liu Zhi and the more than a dozen senior brothers who were the regiment commanders at the adjacent table showed worried expressions on their faces, Jiang Dingwen, Gu Zhutong and Hu Zongnan seemed very relaxed, and seemed to be indifferent to the revocation of the number of the army level and replacing it with the change at the division and brigade level.

On the afternoon of the next day, Chiang Kai-shek came to Xuzhou from Nanjing, and immediately convened a meeting of the Huangpu Department of Generals to sum up the great achievements and significance of the Second Northern Expedition and once again emphasize the spirit of Huangpu and the lofty revolutionary goals.

After summing up, each of the seven or eight generals in the attendant room took a pile of white paper and distributed one to each of the participants, and An Yi, like everyone, looked at Chiang Kai-shek with a blank piece of paper, not knowing what the principal meant.

Commander-in-Chief Jiang on the stage saw that the white paper had been distributed, slowly walked to the front of the podium, stood straight with his hands behind his back, there was no trace of a smile on his grim face as always, his deep eyes glanced around, and said calmly:

"You all have a piece of paper in your hand, and I have a question that you need to write the answer to, and you must write your thoughts on the paper truthfully. My question is, do you think that after the completion of the Northern Expedition and the reunification of the country, the warlords were defeated? ”

An Yi was incredulous that Principal Jiang had asked such a mentally retarded question, and after thinking about it, he still wrote a line according to his own thoughts: If you don't defeat it, the old warlord will perish, and the new warlord will stand up again.

Five minutes passed, everyone stopped writing, and the attendants took all the papers in the hands of more than 300 participating generals, and quickly divided them into two parts according to the two answers of affirmation and negation, An Yi, who was sitting in the front row, found that there were only a few poor answers on the right hand side of Principal Jiang, and Principal Jiang looked at the answers in front of him, and his face was very ugly.

Chiang Kai-shek raised his head, his eyes were slightly disappointed, and he hesitated for a moment before he said: "I really didn't expect that most of the people here actually thought that the warlords had been defeated, and only five people thought that they had not been defeated, and this result surprised me very much." It can be clearly seen from this answer sheet that most people here think that the warlords have been defeated and the world is peaceful, but is this really the case? ”

The audience was silent, and most of the generals, including Liu Zhi, looked at Chiang Kai-shek on the stage with apprehension. Chiang Kai-shek was silent for a moment, then continued:

"Although we have completed the Northern Expedition and achieved the reunification of the country, this can only be called nominal unification, not substantive unification, the southwest, northwest, northeast and Mongolia are not under the direct jurisdiction of the central government, and they are still under the dictatorship of local military and political forces, can it be said that the warlords have been defeated? At present, the Northeast has not yet changed its banner, and as many as 300,000 Feng troops have not yet recognized the leadership of the central government. In the revolutionary army, there are good and bad, there are orders that are not followed, and there are prohibitions that do not stop, can it be said that the warlords have been defeated? After everyone goes back, we must think about this question carefully, think about it repeatedly, have a clear understanding in our minds, and have the right answer! Meeting! ”

The generals dispersed with a lot of heart, Liu Zhi, Jiang Dingwen, Gu Zhutong, Xu Tingyao, An Yi and others who were sitting in the front row were left behind, Chiang Kai-shek motioned for everyone to come forward, and slowly put the paper with An Yi's handwriting in front of the table: "An Yi, tell us, what do you think?" ”

An Yi was a little embarrassed, feeling that this question was difficult to answer clearly, and felt that he was already a small warlord in the actual sense, after several years of secret efforts, his military strength and economic strength not only dominated the Nanchang region, but also infiltrated Xiangxi, Qianxi and other places, and all this has just begun, and it is still far from his goal.

"An Yi, don't have any worries, just say it bluntly, I know that you are a diligent thinker, and I am very satisfied with your answer." Chiang Kai-shek thought that An Yi was embarrassed to speak, relaxed his tense face, and whispered comfort.

An Yi put away his thoughts and replied respectfully: "Principal, teachers and friends, An Yi believes that in addition to the large areas of land such as the southwest, northwest, due north, and northeast mentioned by the principal, and the military forces in these lands are still not under the rule of our central government, the army holding high the banner of revolution today cannot guarantee the purity of the revolution, and the idea of feudal warlords is still deep-rooted. An Yi was very worried in his heart, to say something arrogant, An Yi vaguely seemed to see a deep hidden danger, who can guarantee that driven by interests, there will be no conflict or even large-scale civil war between the various groups of armies holding the same banner high? ”

When everyone heard this, almost all of them were startled, only Chiang Kai-shek's eyes were shining, and he admired An Yi very much: "Well said, well said!" Go on. ”

"This ...... Be! ”

An Yi thought to himself that you forced me to say this, so he simply let it out: "The students think that although the two warlords Sun Chuanfang and Zhang Zongchang have perished, this is not worth rejoicing, because the warlords of the Feng lineage, who are far more powerful than them, still exist, and the rich northeast is still in danger of splitting...... The Japanese imperialists, the backers behind the Feng system, will not die of self-destruction, and the pace of invasion is becoming more and more intense, and one day the Japanese army will throw off the army they have supported and personally go out to invade our country in an all-out way...... Of course, this is just my speculation, in short, the largest warlord in the country has not yet fallen, so how can we talk about defeating the warlord?

Under the inspiration of our central government, the local forces in the southwestern provinces have held high the banner of revolution and expressed their obedience to the central leadership in unison, but they are still in civil war and killing each other, who is the real revolutionary? The reason why they hold high the banner of revolution is only in exchange for a so-called justice, and in essence they are still warlords and still do not accept the leadership of the central government.

In the past two years, they and the central government delegation have returned to Sichuan many times to carry out their work, but without exception they have been sidelined, boycotted, and even threatened personally.

Thirdly, our First Group Army has withdrawn from Hebei, but at this moment the other three group armies are fighting openly and secretly in the Beijing-Tianjin area, and they are constantly fighting against each other. In essence, they are all warlords, and they are all in the ranks of defeat, and perhaps they have secretly prepared for their own interests, openly confronting the central government by one means or another, and even not hesitating to fight for some kind of benefit. ”

"General An, this is too sensational, isn't it? According to you, we are surrounded by warlords, and we are all objects in need of revolution! Liu Zhi couldn't help but say.

An Yi grinned: "I hope that my subordinates think too much, my subordinates did business before joining the army, and they are often calculated by other merchants openly and secretly, and those merchants in Guangzhou City want to bring down the Taichang Commercial Bank where their subordinates are located every day, they use various methods such as wooing the manager of the foreign bank, colluding with the Guangzhou police to find trouble and set up obstacles, temporarily uniting with each other to reduce prices, and even bribing subordinates with heavy money and women to betray their subordinates, etc., the purpose is to bring down the Taichang of the subordinate benefactor Mr. Ou, in order to occupy the market of imported machinery such as sewing machines, In the end, although they did not succeed under Mr. Ou's skillful counterattack, their subordinates were very impressed by various despicable methods, so their subordinates developed a bad habit of guarding against others. ”

Everyone couldn't help but wonder, Jiang Dingwen said that the essence of the shopping mall is the same as the battlefield, Chiang Kai-shek nodded with a smile, walked a few steps and suddenly stopped, turned to An Yi and said solemnly: "An Yi, you go back and prepare, officially hand over all the work of the former enemy's general headquarters, and follow me back to Nanjing tomorrow." ”

"Yes."

An Yi replied reflexively, with a puzzled face.

Chiang Kai-shek left accompanied by his attendants, and all the generals breathed a sigh of relief and looked at An Yi one after another, their eyes full of envy.

An Yi and the generals left the hall together, Jiang Dingwen took An Yi's hand and slowed down, and asked in a low voice in An Yi's ear, "Do you know what the principal asked you to go back for?" ”

"I don't know! Did you seek the advice of the younger brother on the issue of disarmament? An Yi really didn't know, and his face was confused.

Jiang Dingwen shook his head slightly: "This is just one of the problems, it seems that the principal attaches great importance to your opinion, because you have seen things that many of us have not seen, it is estimated that the principal will take you to Beijing, and many problems will be implemented during the trip to Beijing." You followed the principal to Beijing to make an appearance, the significance is extraordinary, I believe the whole country will pay attention, now you know why everyone is so jealous of you, right? You're one step ahead of everyone else! ”

An Yi stopped in surprise and looked left and right, as if he had suddenly lost his way.