At 10 o'clock in the morning, the barracks north of the old Nanchang County were solemn, and He Yushu, director of the Political Department of the First Army of the National Revolutionary Army, Tu Sizong, commander of the 22nd Division, Liu Zhi, commander of the Second Division, and Xu Tingyao, chief of staff, all stood on the reviewing stand on the east side of the school grounds.

Led by officials at all levels of the 22 nd Division's Teaching Regiment, the following teams walked out of the school yard and walked to the newly built camp gate in the east, and their destination was Yujiang in eastern Jiangxi.

Under the review stage, Lu Mingdi, commander of the second battalion, and Zhang Xiangong, deputy of the battalion, stood straight in front of An Yi, Hu Zi, Yin Jinan, Yang Bin, Ye Cheng, Qu Muchen, and other brothers, their eyes red with each other, and they were speechless -- these two school officers with rich experience in leading troops were also transferred away from the 22nd Division, on the grounds that both of them were generals from Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and most of the officers and men of the 22nd Division were from Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

Seeing that the team was about to finish, Lu Mingdi and Zhang Xiangong raised their hands and saluted for a long time, and then turned around and left without saying a word.

An Yi shouted and waited, signaling Gu Lao Er to lead the two tall horses under the cypress tree, and handed the reins to Lu Mingdi and Zhang Xiangong, who were tearful in the tiger's eyes, waving their hands and saying nothing.

More than ten generals on the review stand watched all this silently, and sighed with emotion, and He Yushu, the head of the Political Department, sighed: "I didn't expect it, I didn't expect it...... This An Yi is a man! ”

Tu Sizong said apologetically to Liu Zhi beside him: "Originally, I didn't want to transfer these two people, but I am too short of experienced middle-level military talents, and Shangfeng only gives forty days of training time, so I can't do this!" ”

Liu Zhi thought to himself that if An Yi hadn't been angry and threatened to refuse the handover just now, I am afraid that the tiger general Yang Bin and the Confucian general Ye Cheng would also be pried away by you, but Liu Zhi's patience and kung fu have always been superhuman, so he still spoke very politely:

"As everyone saw just now, the more than 2,000 officers and soldiers who left reluctantly turned back one by one, who would have imagined that the more than 2,000 officers and soldiers who left had only stayed here for four days? From this it can be seen that An Yi and his team do have a unique and effective strategy for administering the army, and since the establishment of their ranks, they have been famous in the army for treating officers and men as equals and being like brothers, and the teams transferred from them are all excellent teams of solidarity and mutual assistance and extremely effective combat effectiveness, and even their engineer companies also have excellent military capabilities, which are by no means inferior to the infantry companies that have been trained for a long time. What a pity! This group of more than 2,000 officers and soldiers left early, and if An Yi and them could be trained for three months, their combat effectiveness and discipline would increase exponentially, and it would not be an exaggeration to say that they were reborn. ”

Xu Tingyao couldn't bear the unhappiness in her heart and echoed loudly: "That's right!" I don't know if everyone noticed it just now, An Yi and their veterans were all wearing old clothes, and they gave good clothes and quilts to the more than 2,000 brothers who left. You can now look at the battalion that is being trained in the southwest of the school grounds, most of the officers and men are thinly dressed but meticulous, there is no doubt that they give up their winter clothes to the brothers who have left, because until now we have not issued any military supplies to the newly attached more than 2,000 officers and soldiers, this spirit of unity and fraternity, I can only see in An Yi and their officers and men, this is the spirit of the 'model battalion' that Commander-in-Chief Chiang has always emphasized! So it's not surprising that their teams have amazing performances in various battles, and this alone can see their superiority, which seems simple, but looking at the current armies, few people can do it, let alone all of them. ”

After listening to Liu Zhi and Xu Tingyao's words, a group of generals sighed regretfully, and walked down the high platform one by one to the neatly arranged An Yi and others, and encouraged them kindly.

Liu Zhi and Xu Tingyao talked cordially with An Yi and others apologetically, told An Yi to go into the city as soon as possible to get new winter clothes, and finally said goodbye reluctantly. In fact, both of them were embarrassed to stay and walk around and see more, and when the other regiments all reorganized and expanded their own prisoners, they only divided the officers and soldiers under An Yi, this unfair and dishonorable practice made these two generals who had been in the army for many years blush, and they did this again and again, and it was always An Yi, a shallow but outstanding warbrass, who was damaged.

Therefore, there was a strange thing that the military department directly gave An Yi's subordinates this time, and the biggest reason was that Liu Zhi and Xu Tingyao were full of guilt and couldn't face An Yi directly, so they could only ask President Jiang to come forward to stabilize An Yi's emotions, so as not to let this outstanding talent be discouraged by discrimination and suppression again and again, and even throw off his hands in anger and find another job.

Now who in the various departments of the Northern Expeditionary Army does not know An Yi who is brave and strategic? What tyrant doesn't want to have such a young but talented general? If An Yi was really angered and went elsewhere, it would not only be a heavy loss for the Second Division, but also a heavy loss for the First Army.

In today's situation, Liu Zhi and Xu Tingyao and even Jiang Dingwen are very helpless, in the face of the generals who are eyeing their subordinates and their hearts are higher than the sky, they have a headache, and the main forces of the main regiments have been working hard since the beginning of the Eastern Expedition, and the generals and schools have been feathered up, they have their own ways, each has their own tricks, the only one who does not have the mellow generosity of An Yi, but the most important thing to be appeased is the main force regiments, they are already the mainstay of the current Second Division, although An Yi's department is growing step by step, but Liu Zhi and others all think, The Ministry of An Yi has been unable to surpass or reach the status of the main forces for a long period of time, not to mention that some people are unwilling to see An Yi surpass themselves, but only that An Yi's current qualifications and strength need to be further honed and developed before he can become a great talent.

In the afternoon, An Yi convened more than a dozen battalion-level commanders to secretly discuss the adjustment of the establishment of the Reading Power Group.

Three hours later, a detailed and sophisticated plan was finally promulgated, and on the basis of guaranteeing the banner of the "model battalion," the first, second, and third battalions were re-established, each with two infantry companies, a machine gun company, and an engineer company. The "model battalion" in which Yin Jinan was also the battalion commander remained basically unchanged, but the number of officers and soldiers was adjusted to 550 people; Xia Jian's four battalions were adjusted to one battalion, and Mu Recall served as the battalion deputy and instructor; Ye Cheng took over as the commander of the second battalion, and Yang Fei served as the battalion deputy and instructor; The commander of the third battalion is still Chen Zhibiao, and Chen Kan serves as the battalion deputy and instructor. Due to the drastic adjustment in the number of troops, firepower, and logistical support, the full number of officers and men of the above three battalions was set at 500.

The biggest change is that the regimental headquarters is directly subordinate to the departments, and the leader of the training team at the battalion level is still Lieutenant Colonel Qu Muchen, and An Yi is also the instructor, and the teaching team does not have the post of deputy for the time being, and normally maintains a non-commissioned officer company of 130 people, and the instructors of each section are all concurrently served by the military technical backbone of each battalion and company. Among them, the 36-member "special detachment" that has been secretly selected exists in the name of the "third platoon of noncommissioned officers of the teaching team" and is directly under the jurisdiction of the "five-member group" of regimental commander An Yi, regimental deputy Hu Jialin, regimental staff officer Yang Bin, instructor Yin Jinan, and teaching captain Qu Muchen.

The number of officers and men of Gu Changfeng's guard company was set at 350, and the name of the guard company remained unchanged; Chang Baogen's machine gun company, Li Tianen's artillery company, Shi Junren's mortar company, and Zhan Huanqi's communications company all remained unchanged. The quartermaster logistics departments were merged into a "quartermaster logistics unit" of 200 officers and men, with Chang Baofang and Shi Lejun serving as the chief and deputy chiefs respectively, and there were quartermaster, logistics, ordnance repair, and baggage transportation departments under it. Since then, the entire 3,500-strong Reading Force Regiment has had a relatively fixed and complete framework, and each battalion after the adjustment has the potential to take charge of its own affairs.

At the end of the secret meeting held in the lonely land temple on the side of the barracks, the sky had gradually darkened, and the spirited brothers returned to the ministries in twos and threes, An Yi, Yin Jinan, and Hu Zi returned to the county government courtyard to prepare dinner, and when they saw the police chief Chao Guoqing waiting in the hall, they immediately greeted him.

Secretary Chao hurriedly stood up, took out an envelope from his pocket and handed it over: "Head An, everyone, thanks to your trust, I have followed the instructions of Head An to release all the remaining 67 serious criminals. ”

An Yile accepted the envelope and greeted warmly: "Oh, it's hard work, big brother!" In the past few days, the younger brother has been too busy with military affairs to invite Brother Chao for a drink, so I don't want to go! If it weren't for the military meeting after dinner, the younger brother would definitely invite the eldest brother Chao to go to the Xiaoyao Building to talk, haha! ”

"The model camp deserves to be a model camp! Lian said that the officers and soldiers built bridges and paved roads to help the widows and the weak, and in the autumn they did not commit fair trading and won the praise of the people. Five cars and more than a dozen generals came early this morning, which shook the people of the small city and opened their eyes! Haha, brother, I'm convinced...... Okay, I won't bother you if your time is precious, if you have something, let people go to the West Courtyard and call out, brother, I'm on call, haha...... Please stay, please stay! Secretary Chao said goodbye with a smile and left.

Back at the dining table in An Yi's small living room, An Yi opened the envelope and took out the check, and was immediately startled by the amount on it: "Secretary Chao of the dog...... His grandmother really dared to do it! Give us a full 100,000! ”

The beard was taken aback, and the chopsticks in his hand almost fell to the ground: "His uncle, there are big fish in the prison!" As soon as this guy made a move, he gave us 100,000 yuan, how much should he exploit? ”

Yin Jinan thought for a while and said: "I remember, there is a son of a Jiujiang grain merchant on death row, it seems that he offended a warlord in Nanchang City two months ago, and the son of the grain merchant was ashamed and angry, and he accidentally killed a top card that was said to be Yancui Building, and the warlord who raised the top brand was arrested, and he was transferred around and locked up in the death row of this old county town. There are also a few stubborn bandits who kill people and oversell goods, and most of the rest are criminals who cause death or mutilation, if it weren't for the fact that the war is estimated to be sentenced early, Lao Chao must have started in these aspects in the past three days, and asked the relatives of the family to pay money to ransom people, so that we have this 100,000 yuan. It's normal to think about it, it's normal for those bandit leaders grain merchants to take out 108,000 yuan in order to save their brother's son's life. ”

An Yi looked at Yin Jinan for a while: "Jinan, you have grown!" I remember that a thousand oceans made you unable to sleep for a few nights, and now 100,000 yuan is not a big deal in your eyes, so it can be seen that this person has changed with the environment. ”

Yin Jinan drank the soup and put down the rice bowl: "Alas...... They have followed you step by step to today, when I first came out, I never dreamed that I would have 10,000 oceans, and now I ...... Do not say! After eating, I have to write a report, and tomorrow I will go to the division headquarters to receive 3,500 sets of winter clothes, and I will quietly deposit those treasures in two banks in batches. Beard, why don't you take the time to help me for a few days? ”

"You can do this yourself, I really don't have time. Lao Lu and Lao Zhang of the second battalion were just transferred, and I had to support Lao Ye and Yang Fei to help them improve their training plans. There is another thing, tomorrow let your battalion deputy Lu Guang transfer an engineer company to Xia Jian's first battalion, and then bring the third infantry company of the first battalion back to your model battalion, and then immediately start training as planned, otherwise it will be too late. ”

After the beard finished speaking, he took a big bite of rice, except for military training, he didn't want to care about these trivial things at all.

An Yi saw Yin Jinan looking at him pitifully, laughed, and said in a low voice: "Okay, I'm responsible for helping you get back a battalion of brand-new equipment, but not necessarily machine guns and mortars, all regiments are staring at this thing like hungry wolves, I don't want to offend them at this time, but I am sure that the principal will give us a battalion of German-made long and short guns, and if you are lucky, you can get ten or eight heavy machine guns back." ”

"Great! In this way, almost all the battalions are well equipped, plus the forty-five light machine guns that we are greedy for, almost every platoon can have a light machine gun, and more than 600 long and short guns can be eliminated for inventory. Yin Jinan smiled happily.

An Yi shook his head: "Don't store guns anymore, our regiment now even has guns for the brothers who raise horses, where do you need to keep any inventory?" At noon, Shen Jianping, Tao Xun, and Zhang Shuguang resigned to me with tears in their eyes, and then embarked on a career of studying abroad.

As soon as the new equipment arrived, he sold the more than 600 guns that had been eliminated plus more than 200 guns, and let the tiger head go to Gao'an again, that Boss Zhao definitely gave a good price, Lao Tzu knew that he privately bought guns for the big landlords and big businessmen in various villages and towns, and really let him organize a joint defense team of more than 300 people in the Gao'an Business League, grandma's! Messed up with Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu dares to make any money, not to mention that most of our firearms have never been recorded, what are you afraid of? In these years, we can starve to death if we die of courage and starve to death of the faint-hearted? ”

Yin Jinan asked in surprise: "You really don't have any spare?" ”

Hu Zi said with a big grin: "Ji Nan, you can rest assured, as long as this battle starts, how many spare guns are available, I agree with Xiao Yi's opinion, take advantage of the current world to sell at a good price and sell quickly, these old guns are also 50,000 or 60,000 yuan of income, plus Lao Chao sent the 100,000 yuan and more than 30,000 yuan seized and sold in bits and pieces, the money for running a textile factory is almost enough." ”

An Yi suddenly remembered something important, and lowered his voice and told Yin Jinan: "When you make the establishment table later, add the name of Lao Shoudao in the column of attached officers, the age is thirty-eight years old, and the military rank will be filled in as a major staff officer, and the resume will refer to other subordinate officers, just write that you have not entered any military school in the army for eighteen years, remember!" ”

"Hey, who is Lao Shoudao? We don't have this guy here! Yin Jinan asked suspiciously.

An Yi smiled: "It's my old way, understand?" His level is more than enough to be a lieutenant general, don't worry! Anyway, there is no perfect management and supervision system in the entire army, and no one will come to verify a small major staff officer, if we don't take the opportunity to do it as soon as possible, it will be troublesome for the General Headquarters and the Military Commission to standardize it, and in the future, our rear will have to rely on the old way to help us watch it. ”

Beard laughed: "I think it's okay, there's no better way to do it, haha!" Just like you just said, if you starve the cowardly to death, you have to take advantage of the benefits as much as possible, otherwise there will be no store in this village. ”

Yin Jinan, who has seen the level of the old way, is also happy: "It would be nice if the old way was really by our side, with such a well-known and far-sighted old-timer, we will be able to take many detours, I agree!" I'll write it in later, anyway, he's from Jiangxi, and it's easy to get a resume of a few sentences...... In this way, we are now also a regiment-level unit, so I will write another application report requesting that someone be stationed in Guangzhou for material purchase, transshipment, and personnel liaison, and you will bring it with you tomorrow, sign the report to the division, and then go to the political department to get this certificate, anyway, the division also knows that most of our engineering equipment is purchased in Guangzhou, and it will definitely agree. ”

"Great idea! Lao Tzu almost forgot about this layer, so that even if Lao Dao is not in the army, no one will take him, haha! An Yi smiled excitedly.

Hu Zi thought for a while and asked, "Xiao Yi, the more than 100,000 pieces of equipment we entrusted Hans and Mr. Ou to purchase should have arrived, right?" ”

An Yi nodded: "Tomorrow I will go into the city to get the telegram, it is estimated that it is almost, and when I come back, I will let Peng Jianqing, the deputy of the communication company, take a few brothers to Guangzhou, I hope that Lao Dao can come after seeing my letter, where to choose our light industry base, we have to seek the opinion of Mr. Feng Shui of Lao Dao, Mr. Ou is also convinced of this set, this is a big deal, can not be ambiguous, by the way, let Peng Jianqing, a filial son, go home to see his father and mother, it is not easy to go out!" ”

"Big brother, how do you arrange your time after tomorrow?" Yin Jinan asked.

An Yi laughed: "I don't have time this week, I have to be busy with equipment issues, number and establishment issues, and cooperation with celebrities from all walks of life in old Nanchang, and I have to report to the principal from time to time, accompany the principal to meet the rich people who are flocking from all over Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai, and go to Brother Yu's military warehouse from time to time to have a cup of tea, and help the old Nanchang car and horse shopkeeper Zhu get back a business permit between Nanchang City and old Nanchang...... As long as there is a good place, Lao Tzu will go, and temporarily transfer Ding Zhicheng, the instructor of the guard company, to me as a guard for a few days.

Didn't the group of grandsons of our first army and regiments go in and out of this banquet and that reception all day long? They are going to set up the score, let them, we don't seek those false names, but to find ways to get real benefits, and when our strength accumulates to a certain extent, who wants to squeeze oil and water from us, they have to weigh it well! ”

Yin Jinan and Hu Zi knew that An Yi had begun to lay the foundation for a lofty goal, and the two put down their jobs and solemnly told An Yi: Even if you go out, we have the business at home!

(To be continued)