The last time Chiang Kai-shek went into the wilderness, it was he and the Gui faction headed by Li Zongren who contacted many parties and borrowed Wang Jingwei's political prestige and position in the party to promote Chiang Kai-shek's disgrace. Wang Jingwei is in charge and Li Zongren is in charge of the army, and such a good situation is almost imminent. But only a few months after this situation, under a series of dizzying manoeuvres by Chiang Kai-shek, their allies turned against Chiang Kai-shek. As soon as Wang Jingwei saw that the situation was not good, he immediately shrank back and went to France to recuperate. This time, I can see their weakness at a glance, and it seems that this time I am going to take advantage of their Gui system.

It was they who forced Chiang Kai-shek to lose his supreme power for a time, and Chiang Kai-shek's surname would never let them go. Thinking of this, he complained a little about his boss, in June of the 15th year of the Republic of China, Chiang Kai-shek went to Wuhan to invite Li Zongren to go to Beiping to pay homage to the coffin of the former prime minister. Li Zongren hosted a banquet to entertain Chiang Kai-shek that night, but Hu Zongduo, Tao Jun, Xia Wei, and other generals of the Gui family who were in Wuhan at that time refused to attend, and only Li Zongren was accompanied by a lonely family, and the scene was not deserted. His own boss is good everywhere, but His Majesty is too lenient, if he was in Wuhan at the time, these people would never dare to do this. If they neglect Chiang Kai-shek like this, this account will definitely be recorded on their Li and Bai heads, and even Chiang Kai-shek will think that Li Zongren instructed him.

Chiang Kai-shek saw him and Li Zongren, Feng Yuxiang, and Yan Xishan's mentality and personality very clearly, and this vision was very terrifying, and he and Li Zongren were too far apart. If Lao Jiang takes the Northwest Army first, their Gui family will definitely not sit idly by, and they understand the truth of cold lips and teeth. With the financial support of more than 700,000 men and horses of the Gui and Northwest armies and the financial resources of Liangguang, the odds of victory against Chiang Kai-shek's Central Army and some small miscellaneous fish attached to him were extremely high. However, if they were attacked first, Feng Huanzhang and Yan Baichuan might not be able to send troops, and now it seems almost impossible.

Li Zongren, who was in Shanghai, had already called him and informed him about contacting Feng Huanzhang and Yan Baichuan. Although Yan Baichuan promised to help Gui overthrow Jiang, he didn't make any moves, which he felt deeply in Beiping. Shang Zhen, Zhang Yinwu, Fu Zuoyi and others would never be involved in the affairs of the Gui family, and if they had their support, he would have arrested Li Pinxian who instigated the Hunan officers and soldiers to fall to Gui and welcome the Tang Dynasty. Feng Huanzhang was better, and promised that the Gui department would start the war with Lao Chiang two weeks later, on the grounds that it would take time for the troops to move. Joke, two weeks after the start of the war, it is likely that the battle situation will be clear, and Feng Huanzhang will definitely participate in the war at that time, but it is difficult to say who he will support at that time. Fang Zhenwu's words just now also proved his conjecture to a certain extent.

Bai Chongxi fiercely snuffed out most of the cigarettes in the ashtray, and he remembered the telegram sent by Hu Zongduo, Tao Jun and others in Wuhan half a month ago. When Chiang Kai-shek learned that he was going to cancel the military branches in various places, Li Zongren in Nanjing telegraphed to him and the Wuhan side when he learned about it. But these stupid and bastards actually took advantage of the dissolution of the military and political branch to remove Lu Diping, chairman of Hunan Province, in the name of the Wuhan military and political branch. In Hebei, there were rumors in his troops as early as half a year ago that Chiang Kai-shek supported Tang Shengzhi to return to command the old troops, and he knew that there must be a shadow of Chiang Kai-shek in Nanjing behind this incident. But as long as Chiang Kai-shek did not express his position publicly, Tang Shengzhi would not dare to come back, he was afraid that he would be dealt with as soon as he returned, so that even Li Pinxian and others would not dare to make trouble unbridled. And Chiang Kai-shek had no suitable reason to backtrack Tang Shengzhi's return. But now that there is, this "Hunan case" just gave Chiang Kai-shek an excellent excuse. Chiang Kai-shek's telegram said: "The 'Hunan case' was a major violation of the law by local soldiers, who had no central focus and were arrogant and habitual. ”

In order to settle the Hunan case, he and Li Zongren both sent telegrams of resignation, but Chiang Kai-shek did not allow it, in order to prepare for war, and at the same time to test Chiang Kai-shek's bottom line against the Gui system, he sent a telegram to Chiang Kai-shek, asking for the transfer of troops back to Wuhan on the grounds that "North China is bitterly cold, and the troops are now wearing straw shoes and single clothes, and they are in unbearable pain." Chiang Kai-shek refused to allow it, which showed that Chiang Kai-shek would never stop there. The reason why he hasn't done it yet is that he is not ready. He originally wanted to take the 12th, 53rd, and 54th divisions back to Wuhan, but Jinpu Road could not be walked, and now only Longhai Road still has a glimmer of hope. Now that the 54th Division is against him, the 12th Division will also waver, and only one 53rd Division will follow him, and this security army in Handan is not something he can easily deal with. The telegram that he wanted to buy military rations was a test of the attitude of the security forces, and he was still looking forward to the news. But Fang Zhenwu's arrival disrupted his plan, Hebei is now in danger, and he must rush back to Wuhan as soon as possible with Liao Lei's 53rd Division. Therefore, as soon as Fang Zhenwu left, he sent people to find Liao Lei and Wang Zemin, these were the only two senior generals he could trust.

The captain of his guard, who was also his clan's first Bai Chongguang, came in and interrupted his musings. "Big brother, Ye Changgui, the commander of the Hebei Security Army Guard Brigade, asks to see you." When no one is around, they have always been referred to as brothers.

Ye Changgui's arrival made Bai Chongxi stunned, now don't say that the middle and high-level generals in Hebei such as Shang Zhen, Zhang Yinwu, Fu Zuoyi, even the general middle and low-level generals also try to stay away from him, what is the brigade commander of the security army going to do, is Song Zhewu willing to let him go? Bai Chongxi was surprised by this result, although it was something he very much hoped for. Bai Chongguang was stunned when he saw him, and explained: "This Ye Changgui is my junior brother I told my eldest brother, and he came to visit secretly in plain clothes this time. ”

"Please!" Bai Chongxi said as he wanted to go out the door. After a few steps and then stopped, hesitated for a moment but returned to his desk and sat down, opened the drawer, and pushed the bullet from a Browning pistol inside, and pushed the drawer inward, and when it was not closed, it remained in a position where the gun could be reached.

Ye Changgui was dressed in a green cloth robe, dressed like a small businessman, and under the guidance of Bai Chongguang, he came to Bai Chongxi's study. Bai Chongxi didn't get up, but just said, "Please take a seat." "There are guards serving tea, during this period, Bai Chongxi just looked at Ye Changgui quietly, if he was not Bai Chongguang's junior brother, Bai Chongxi would never believe that this young man was a brigade commander. At this time, in the [***] sequence, most of the brigade commanders were major generals, and only a few were colonels.

Ye Changgui also looked at Bai Chongxi quietly, without a trace of panic. Or did Bai Chongxi break the silence first: "Mr. Ye is expensive this year?" Are all the officers of your security forces young? Ye Changgui owes himself and replied: "I am 26 this year, the officers of our security army are all very young, our Commander Song is only two years older than me, and the other division commanders are similar to us. Bai Chongxi nodded and asked, "Mr. Ye is not in Laiyuan, what's the matter with me?" Although Bai Chongxi knew that it was related to food.

Ye Changgui said slowly: "I am here on the order of our Commander Song, to tell General Bai that the grain you want, Commander Song has been transported to Handan under the order of Chairman Jiang in Nanjing, and it should arrive now, but the quantity is more, it is food for 100,000 people for a month." ”

When Bai Chongxi heard that it was Chiang Kai-shek's order, his expression couldn't help but change, and his hand was already holding the handle of the gun in the drawer. Bai Chongxi's face quickly calmed down again, and said lightly: "If that's all, you go back and tell you Commander Song, just say that I, Bai Chongxi, will definitely thank him in the future!" Although Bai Chongxi expected that Song Zhewu might have thrown himself into Chiang Kai-shek, he was still very surprised when it was confirmed, but he was also very helpless, it seemed that he and the 53rd Division would not be able to return to Wuhan without a bloody battle.

Ye Changgui discovered Bai Chongxi's changes, although it was very short-lived. Even the slight movement of his arm, he could see it clearly, and he could even feel what Bai Chongxi was holding in his hand under the table.

"General Bai, our Commander Song likes Tao Yuanming's words very much, he also admires the general's personality, he wants to ask the general to keep this ink treasure, so that he can often look at it, as for the money to polish the pen, Commander Song said that he will double it when he meets General Bai in the future."

"Oh!" Bai Chongxi is a little confused? He and Song Zhewu have never met, and his words of admiration are really polite, but he immediately thought that Lao Jiang in Nanjing was no longer necessary to be polite to him. As for his handwriting, although it is okay, it is by no means outstanding, so what does it mean to ask him? Bai Chongxi resisted the urge to chase away the guests, and asked in a cold voice, "That song?" However, I am a soldier, and I don't like to chant the wind and the moon like your Commander Song, so I'm afraid I'm going to disappoint him. ”

Ye Changgui smiled faintly and said: "This poem is in my arms, and I ask my senior brother to pick it up." "This is to tell Bai Chongxi, I don't want to cause misunderstanding.

Bai Chongxi stopped Bai Chongguang, who was about to step forward, and said lightly: "I, Bai Chongxi, am also rolled out of the sea of corpses and blood, so you can take it out." Ye Changgui slowly put his hand into his arms, slowly took out a roll of rice paper, and handed it to Bai Chongguang, who in turn handed it to Bai Chongxi.

Bai Chongxi opened it gently, spread it on the table, and the beautiful and robust pen words on the paper met Bai Chongxi's eyes, Bai Chongxi had never seen such a good person with pen writing. In this era, there is no hard pen calligraphy, and Song Zhewu won an award in his previous life.

Above is the Eastern Jin Dynasty poet Tao Yuanming's "Return to the Words", Bai Chongxi read softly: "Return to the Future, the countryside will not return?" Both self-conscious and self-serving, melancholy and sad? Realize that the past is not admonished, and those who know the future can be traced. It's not far away, and I feel that today is but yesterday is not. The boat is far away with a light flutter, and the wind is fluttering and blowing clothes. Ask the husband the way forward, hate the morning light......

Bai Chongxi understood the meaning of this poem, this is this Song Zhewu, who has never met, hinting that he wants to return to Guangxi as soon as possible. He must have gotten some unfavorable news for himself, so he risked offending Lao Chiang in Nanjing and sent someone to hint at himself. But why did he do it? Could it be that this Song Zhewu saw that as soon as the Gui family fell, no one had the strength to play the same role as Lao Jiang. And the veteran will be heroic and victorious, and clean them up one by one, even including him Song Zhewu? If this is the case, this Song Zhewu is a character, and with this vision, he is much stronger than Feng Huanzhang and Yan Baichuan, who are still thinking of taking the opportunity to put a few pieces of meat on the Gui family. This Song Zhewu has such a vision when he is less than 30 years old, which is really not simple. Bai Chongxi thinks that he will never have this vision at this age, and this young man must make good friends in the future.

Thinking of this, Bai Chongxi smiled slightly and said: "You go back and tell you Commander Song, I also like this poem very much, although Bai's calligraphy is not outstanding, but I will write it with my heart, let you Commander Song prepare to polish the pen, I will take tens of thousands of soldiers to Handan to get it." Bai Chongxi was still a little unwilling, and he wanted to test it again.

"General Bai, our commander said: 'If the general must go, he will personally lead tens of thousands of security troops to greet General Bai, and maybe someone from Henan will also come to meet the general. Our commander also said that Chinese Chinese characters are very interesting, such as the two characters of Shede, which have diametrically opposite meanings, but can be combined together. Our commander thinks that in other words, there is a give-and-take; If you don't want to give up, you won't get it. These two words go hand in hand. ”

Bai Chongxi slowly stood up and slowly came to the window. He now completely understood Song Zhewu's hints. What else does he Bai Chongxi have in Hebei that he is reluctant to reluctant? That's the army of these hundreds of thousands. Now the army is unstable, Li Pinxian can no longer command, and now the 54th Division has problems again, most of the 12th Division is the old department of the original Tang Shengzhi, and only Liao Lei's 53rd Division has two brigades that are veterans of Guangxi, and he can still control it. Aren't these Hunan soldiers going back, Bai Chongxi believes that as long as he takes them back to Lianghu, the army's morale will immediately stabilize. And even if the chaos continues, he is not afraid, there is the main force of their Gui family, and I don't believe that they will make trouble. But Song Zhewu wanted him to give up the army and go back by himself. If you think about it, it should be said now that it is most practical for him to go back by himself.

Ye Changgui saw that Bai Chongxi was silent for a long time, and said: "General Bai, Commander Song also said that he likes the sentence in the words the most: 'The boat is far away with a light boat, and the wind is fluttering and blowing clothes.'" He said that General Bai was a free and easy person, and he must like it too. The current weather, from here to Shanghai, the sea is stormy and rough, and there are many risks. The route from Ben to Vietnam is the water wide and the waves are flat, which is very suitable for long-distance voyages. After Ye Changgui finished speaking, he stood up, bowed slightly at Bai Chongxi's back, and said, "If General Bai has no other orders, I will leave, and I hope the general will cherish it!" ”

Bai Chongxi turned around and nodded calmly: "Please Mr. Ye tell Commander Song that today's incident will never be forgotten!" After speaking, he waved his hand and motioned for Bai Chongguang to send Ye Changgui out.