Tongde Village in the northern suburbs of Guangzhou has never been so lively, starting from the dawn of the day, more than a dozen military trucks drove to the east of the village less than 100 meters high but lush Rooster Mountain, hundreds of revolutionary officers and soldiers with thick wood and thick planks, on the mountainside under the phoenix platform quickly set up a wide three-meter-high platform, and finished with green pine to decorate the tower-shaped pillars on both sides of the high platform, the top of the two tower pillars was connected together by a red banner, and the center behind the high platform was hung with two huge blue sky white flags, The curious villagers asked the sweaty officers and soldiers and learned that this high platform was not a stage, but a viewing platform and a review platform, where two units of the revolutionary army would compete in a later moment.

At 8:20 a.m., a variety of cars and light trucks with party or military flags on the front of the cars passed through the heavy sentry posts and slowly drove to the bottom of the viewing platform.

Chiang Kai-shek, commander-in-chief of the National Revolutionary Army, He Yingqin, commander of the First Army, Tan Yanhong, commander of the Second Army, Zhu Peide, commander of the Third Army, Li Jishen, commander of the Fourth Army, Li Fulin, commander of the Fifth Army, Lin Boqu, director of the Political Department of the Sixth Army, and section chiefs of various departments of the Whampoa Military Academy, got out of the car one after another, and under the support of their subordinates, they climbed onto the review stand with great interest. As soon as they sat down, they picked up the contents of the sapper contest and the route diagram that had already been placed on the table and read them carefully; many generals and colonels took out their binoculars and began to observe, and reporters from major newspapers walked in a hurry, interviewing and taking pictures, shuttling between the stage and the stage, gathering the stars for a time, and making the skill competition held by a small company-level unit an unprecedentedly grand and grand.

After a series of reports were requested, the deputy director of the quartermaster department, who wore the rank of lieutenant general, stepped down from the high platform and, surrounded by seven or eight generals and colonels, including Liu Xiao, commander of the Second Division and the Fourth Division of the Second Army, Zhang Huizan, and other seven or eight other generals and colonels, gave lectures to more than 270 officers and men of the Third Engineer Company of the Second Division and the First Engineer Company of the Fourth Division, who had just run into the field.

The bosses in the first row of the rostrum looked at each other with a smile of interest, raised their binoculars with bad eyes and looked at them carefully, exchanging views with each other from time to time, commenting on their heads, and occasionally saying a light-hearted joke would cause a burst of laughter.

Chiang Kai-shek, who was wearing a straight military uniform in the center, had a relaxed expression on his face, he looked at the six company-level commanders standing in front of the two competition companies in the audience, and was slightly proud of it, because half of the six commanders on both sides of the audience were his students, and he was even happier after hearing He Yingqin next to him introduce Hu Ziyuan as a Whampoa equestrian instructor, and whispered, "Four of the six company-level commanders are from my Whampoa sect, and I am grateful!" ”

In particular, An Yi, the acting company of the Second Division, was the only proud protégé who made Chiang Kai-shek feel happy when he thought about it, and he was very fond of An Yi and full of expectations. vigorously publicize and boost morale, and establish the military prestige and image of the revolutionary army among the people." This attitude surprised He Yingqin, Liu Xiao, and others, who had not yet spoken out for instructions, and recalled them.

After a while, the bosses on the stage began to talk one after another, asking each other what were the small bags and all kinds of strange things hanging on the officers and soldiers of the second division and the third company of the second division, in addition to the pickaxes and ropes? In particular, the huge burden on the more than a dozen strong soldiers lined up behind the three-row column looks very heavy and cumbersome, and they will have to swim across the 34-meter river with arms for a five-kilometer cross-country in a while, can they bear it?

Lao Jiang was also quite worried after listening to it carefully, and turned his head to ask He Yingqin, Lao He didn't understand what it was, after all, he had only heard reports from Liu Xiao and others, and had not seen it with his own eyes.

At this time, the lieutenant general and deputy minister who lectured in the audience ended his impassioned words, and in order to drum up morale and strengthen the army's might, Mr. Deputy Minister proposed that the two participating companies sing a song and start to set off after singing.

The burly captain and company commander of the first company of the Fourth Division shouted "obey the order", turned around and began to give orders to lead the singing, and then danced and beat the beat like a big duck with injured wings, and a loud "Song of the Northern Expedition" sounded in the sky.

The second division and the third company were lonely and silent on this side.

An Yi, who was still squinting at his old classmate Zhang Tianyi on the other side with the corner of his eye, was stunned, he had been so tired and confused for a month, where did he want to teach his brothers to sing? More than 100 brothers stood there stupidly listening to the singing of the mountains and rivers on their toes, looking around under the gaze of dozens of generals on the stage and thousands of soldiers and civilians around them, at a loss.

An Yi thought about it, how can this be done? Before the game, the morale was suppressed, and it became a problem!

An Yi, who was anxious, couldn't take care of it, turned around and walked towards his brother, and shouted loudly as he walked: "Brothers, why didn't Lao Tzu teach you to sing, do you know? I'm afraid that you will be distracted by singing! What's the use of roaring before you even work? What's the difference between this and not being able to and snorting in pain? Right, brethren? ”

"Hahahaha......"

A cadre of soldiers laughed loudly, which surprised Lao Jiang and a group of bosses on the stage.

Because An Yi's voice was too loud, the deputy minister in front of the team and Liu Xiao and Zhang Huizan, the division-level commanders, could hear it clearly, Liu Xiao, Hu Shusen and Xu Tingyao swept away the worries in their hearts after hearing this, and couldn't help grinning, so angry that Zhang Huizan on the side of him grabbed his gold-wire glasses and rolled his eyes at An Yi.

The deputy minister looked at An Yi who was jumping up and down beside the soldier and chattering, scolding is not, not scolding and feeling wrong, how do you know that An Yi, who let go, next sentence is worse than the other, and every sentence is more funny, so that more than 100 brothers under his command are happy, and the friendly army's singing stopped, and they still laughed insolently, and they had no scruples at all in such a grand and solemn atmosphere.

Liu Xiao stepped forward and whispered something to Mr. Deputy Minister, Mr. Vice Minister nodded, pulled out his spear and ordered loudly:

"The game is about to start and both sides are ready...... Ready—pop—"

The shouts of the command rang out, and the dense footsteps stirred up puffs of dust, and the two companies, led by their respective officers, made a half-circle of one hundred and eighty degrees, and at the same time galloped along the wide dirt road and followed the established route.

Mr. Vice Minister shook his head and walked back to the rostrum, and Liu Xiao and others also followed.

Xu Tingyao walked to Zhang Huizan's side happily, praised Brother Xiangjun's well-trained, and Zhang Huizan, who was white and clean, and had a gentle face, remembered An Yi's damaged mouth, and immediately scolded and scolded, and asked Xu Tingyao angrily, "How can my brother have such a subordinate who is indiscriminate?" I also graduated from Huangpu", Xu Tingyao laughed happily.

In the advancing team, An Yi strode to Zhang Tianyi's side and walked side by side: "Grandma's Lao Zhang, why does Lao Tzu think that today's martial arts competition is more and more like your grandson's idea?" ”

"Hehe, Lao Tzu just made a suggestion to Shangfeng, but I didn't expect Shangfeng to adopt it, haha! Xiao Yi, the lineage is the lineage, you are the company commander, the elder brother arrived at the old army in his hometown and counted the previous military age, he was just awarded the lieutenant deputy company commander before yesterday, and people are more popular than people, haha! ”

Although Zhang Tianyi said this on his mouth, he was proud in his heart, and after laughing, he deliberately glanced at the white student nameplate on An Yi's chest.

An Yi was not fooled, and fought back while running: "I said Lao Zhang, you are Lao Tzu's defeated general at school, don't want to get any benefits today, don't look at your brothers who are fat and strong, well-trained, and all of them are some veteran ruffians who are one in a hundred, but they still haven't been able to enter Lao Tzu's eyes, today I have to teach you a vivid lesson, so that you know what a real sapper is, haha!" ”

Zhang Tianyi was just about to ridicule each other, but the team had reached the fork in the road, and the two armies were about to advance at a distance of 50 meters from the left and right.

Running through the fork, the distance between the two armies gradually narrowed, Zhang Tianyi suddenly found that An Yi's brothers ran very easily, and the weight was larger than his brothers, it was estimated that they were pulled down a lot in the two-kilometer cross-country run, but now there is no difference in speed, Zhang Tianyi can't help but be secretly anxious.

Thinking about An Yi's usual tricks, Zhang Tianyi had a lot of scruples, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that something was wrong, so he hurried to the company commander to report for a while.

The company commander, who was more than 30 years old, was also a ruthless character, and after hearing this, he did not hesitate to order to speed up, and in less than five minutes, he was about 500 meters ahead of the third company of the second division.