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Chapter 506 West Tongguan

On the morning of the next day, Zhang Hongluan, commander of the 44th Army, suddenly received a notice from the commander-in-chief's chamber that Commander-in-Chief Chiang would go to Changde to express his condolences to the officers and men of the 44th Army.

Zhang Hongluan, who was ready to set off and was about to say goodbye to Commander-in-Chief Chiang and officials of various central ministries, was suddenly very surprised, but he knew in his heart that since Commander-in-Chief Chiang's itinerary had been decided, it could not be changed, and he quickly calmed down and arranged the reception work, with the help of Ye Kaixin, he notified the defenders of the Third Division stationed in Changde through the headquarters radio to do a good job of security and security, and ordered the guard battalion to ride first and return by land, so he led his generals and Commander-in-Chief Jiang to board the boat and enter the Yuan River through Dongting Lake and go to Changde. He Jian, who officially assumed the chairmanship of Hunan Province, also gladly accompanied him.

Since most of the officers and men of the Third Division of the Third Division of the 44th Army were the children of the original garrison regiments of Changde and its surrounding counties, they did a very good job in maintaining public order and guarding the vigilance.

On the way into the city, Commander-in-Chief Chiang and his attachés were quite surprised and satisfied to see the rare smiling faces of the people and the small colored flags waved in the hands of young people and children, and everyone could realize that the people's welcome was from the heart from the sincere smiling faces and the slogans that were shouted more and more neatly without prior consultation, and this remarkable feature left a deep impression on everyone, even He Jian, who was the provincial chairman, and his attachés were very puzzled, not knowing that the 44th Army had just occupied Changde for less than ten days. Why was it able to win the hearts and minds of the people so quickly?

Ye Kaixin and An Yi knew the reason. The 44th Army, from the generals of the military headquarters to the instructors of each company, almost two-thirds of the commanders have received training at the Nanchang non-commissioned officer training base, and most of the successful experiences and political education methods summed up by the ** division have been transplanted. On the first day that the Third Division was stationed in Changde, Colonel Lu Ping led 2,200 teaching regiments directly under his command composed of outstanding soldiers of the whole army to be stationed in various counties and towns inside and outside the city, and began vigorous political propaganda activities in accordance with the original plan. Solicit opinions from all sectors of society on matters such as the army's funding for the renovation of schools and the establishment of hospitals in the city.

Over the past 10 days, the brothers and brothers of each company of the teaching regiment have been mobilized to carry out policy propaganda, clean up the streets, empty the garbage, repair the broken bridges, and renovate the roads; more than 500 people whose houses were destroyed by the war have been invited to live in the barracks temporarily, and they have been provided with two meals a day free of charge.

The head of the regiment, Lu Ping, and several deputies invited craftsmen from inside and outside the city to quickly build sturdy wooden houses on the ruins of the empty houses, and not only did not charge a penny from the people, but also paid the wages and timber materials in full.

This series of visible and tangible measures to benefit the people immediately aroused huge repercussions, and won the praise of the people from all walks of life in Changde, and the officers and men of the 44th Army quickly won the support of the local people with the style of the people's soldiers that the traditional Hunan army had never had.

At first, the other officers and men of the Third Division did not understand what the teaching regiment was doing, and some even sneered that this was all false, and that the army only needed to obey orders and fight bravely. However, under the strict military discipline of Zhang Hongluan, no one dared to tear down the stage, and could only stand by and watch with the mentality of watching a good show, and the results came out within a few days, and the officers and men of the teaching regiment wearing camouflage uniforms were warmly greeted by the people everywhere, and the people showed smiling faces to all the soldiers, including the officers and men of the Third Division, and every day the old people and children sent some worthless fruits and scalded soil to the camp gate to show their gratitude, and the officers and men of the Third Division were deeply touched, and their ideological concepts also changed.

Army Commander Zhang Hongluan passed through Changde on his way to Changsha, greatly appreciated the efforts of Lu Pinghe and the Teaching Corps, and ordered the whole army to learn from the Teaching Corps, and that officers below the battalion level of the Third Division must receive a one-month training in political and ideological work from the Teaching Corps.

Although He Jian, who was walking behind Chiang Kai-shek, was suspicious, he did not pay too much attention to the humble people, and his eyes focused on the officers and men of the teaching regiment and the gendarmerie wearing camouflage combat uniforms, steel helmets, waist-inserted pistols and daggers, and German flower machine guns on their backs.

Entering the headquarters of the Third Division in the city with a stomach full of questions, He Jian couldn't think clearly, and he didn't dare to ask Zhang Hongluan, so he privately pondered whether he should ask Chiang Kai-shek sideways, first, to see if Chiang Kai-shek had noticed this problem, and secondly, to catch something from Chiang Kai-shek's reaction.

What He Jian didn't expect was that Commander-in-Chief Jiang at this time, like him He Jian, did not know that the first and second divisions of the 44th Army had quietly completed the refitting two months earlier, and the two divisions had all been replaced with unified weapons, and there was a ** regiment whose equipment was not inferior to that of the teaching regiment directly under the military department. The combat effectiveness and fighting style of the two main divisions far surpassed that of any team under He Jian's command.

After a brief lunch, under the leadership of Zhang Hongluan, commander-in-chief of Chiang's army, he inspected the officers and men of the 1st Regiment of the 3rd Division, and gave high praise to the officers and men of the 3rd Division who had joined the camp of the revolutionary army and made great contributions to the war against the Gui rebellion.

The officers and men of the First Regiment, who were still wearing the old clothes of the dark gray revolutionary army and carrying standard miscellaneous weapons, never dreamed that they would see Commander-in-Chief Jiang with their own eyes today and be able to hear the praise and instructions of the commander-in-chief.

After the ceremony, Commander-in-Chief Chiang, who felt that he had already glimpsed the true appearance of the 44th Army, was no longer interested in staying temporarily, but encouraged Zhang Hongluan and other generals who accompanied him and set off to return to Changsha.

Chiang Kai-shek stopped when he returned to Yueyang, held a two-hour secret talk with He Jian, sailed north again in the early morning, and returned to Wuhan on the evening of the 28th.

An Yi, who traveled with Chiang Kai-shek for the first time, was a little uncomfortable with this rhythm, and there was almost nothing for him in the itinerary, so he felt a little bored along the way.

Back to the temporary residence of the headquarters general in Wuhan, An Yi was about to go to bed after taking a shower, and the unusually energetic Chiang Kai-shek held a core military meeting again, An Yi was ordered to participate as a member of the commander-in-chief's military think tank, when An Yi changed into a uniform and stopped, he saw that the watch on his wrist had pointed to 11:20 in the middle of the night, and he couldn't help but smile bitterly and shook his head.

When the personnel arrived, Ruan Zhan, director of the Second Department, who was in charge of espionage and investigation, briefed the eight civilians and military officers attending the meeting on the emergency military situation: "Due to a certain military force in China with ulterior motives spreading rumors to confuse the public, it is rumored in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Pingjin that General Yan Baichuan has received a secret order from the commander-in-chief that he will echo the north and south of the Central Army and launch a surprise attack on Shandong, Henan, Shaanxi, and other places occupied by the Northwest Army, causing tremendous changes in the situation in the entire north.

On the 25th, General Sun Liangcheng, who had been inaugurated as chairman of Shandong Province by telegram, suddenly led his troops back to Henan, and then telegraphed the central authorities to resign from the post of chairman of Shandong Province. Yesterday, after General Long Yun of Yunnan Province was inaugurated as commander-in-chief of the 10 th Route Army to launch troops to attack the Gui system, and General He Jian again sent a telegram to send troops to northern Guibei, General Lu Zhonglin, who acted as General Feng Huanzhang, took office as vice minister of the Ministry of Military Affairs, and General Xiong Bin, director of the Aviation Administration, left Nanjing and left Shanghai without authorization.

What is puzzling is that, as agreed in advance, General Feng Huanzhang's telegram soon arrived, explaining that General Lu Zhonglin and Xiong Bin had gone to Shanghai to treat an old illness, and that General Sun Liangcheng had regrettably resigned from the post of governor of Shandong Province because he had no energy to take care of government affairs because he was suffering from illness, and not for any other reason. However, according to the secret reports from Xi'an, the Northwest Army stationed in Shandong has quietly retreated westward, gathering on the front line of western Henan, of which four divisions stationed in northern Shaanxi, Gansu, and Ningxia have been assembled in the eastern area of Xi'an.

Therefore, we will convene an emergency meeting tonight in accordance with the Commander-in-Chief's opinion, and I hope that all colleagues will pool their wisdom and efforts to come up with countermeasures. ”

Ge Jingen, Liu Guang, An Yi, Yang Yongtai, Chen Guofu, and others attending the meeting have all learned more or less about the current situation in the north over the past few days, and the rumors of a joint attack on the Northwest Army, which are spreading more and more widely, have been sent to the General Staff Headquarters in the form of a report a few days ago, but until now, no one knows who the "military group with ulterior motives" is that spreads the rumors.

An Yi has secretly analyzed this countless times, thinking about it, first eliminate the Gui family, which is currently under attack on all sides and is overwhelmed, and then exclude the "person concerned" Yan Xishan, the Northeast Army is currently struggling with the Soviet Union for the Eastern Railway and has no energy, the Sichuan warlords are in full swing, and they do not have the ability and energy to spread rumors that are not beneficial to themselves, and the rest makes An Yi feel quite confused and shocked: There are only two possibilities!

First, Feng Yuxiang, who had not gained much in the Northern Expedition and the war against the Gui family, shouted to catch the thief in an attempt to cause chaos, so as to gain the sympathy of public opinion and the appeasement of the central government, and then repeated the old tricks as he did in the early stage of the Northern Expedition and the preparatory stage of the Second Northern Expedition, and put forward a series of conditions and demands to the central government and Commander-in-Chief Chiang, so as to alleviate the financial difficulties brought about by the Northwest Army of up to 400,000 people, and to quell the growing public anger in the occupied provinces of Henan, Shaanxi, Gansu, and Ning.

In particular, the five-month-long drought has been unavoidable and is forming a catastrophe of unprecedented scale, and tens of millions of people in Shaanxi and western Henan are in dire straits, and the plague caused by the death of tens of thousands of people due to starvation in northern Shaanxi in the past few days has spread uncontrollably, and the Northwest Army, which had been tightly sealed and forbidden to leak information, can no longer be able to deal with it, and one huge contradiction after another and difficulties have pressed the Northwest Army up and down to the point of not being able to straighten up, so the contradictions are diverted through this trick. It is not impossible to alleviate the infamy and evil consequences brought about by the reckless use of military force and fishing.

The second possibility is that Chiang Kai-shek, who was determined to eliminate the local warlords and complete the substantive reunification of the country, deliberately spread rumors, sang and made peace with Yan Xishan, a common interest who was striving to continue to control the Pingjin region, and forced Feng Yuxiang, who was eyeing Shandong and Pingjin regions, to withdraw from Shandong.

An Yi, who used the elimination method to leave doubts, did not delve further, and he did not have the ability to delve into it, An Yi, who had just been divided by Chiang Kai-shek and finished dividing his army, had already learned to be smart, and Taoguang obscurity was the only way he could take at present, so these analysis and judgment could only be rotten in his stomach, but at this moment, an emergency meeting was proposed, and An Yi couldn't help but think about it.

"The subordinates agreed to send the deputy director General He Yaozu to Tongguan and his party, and at the same time, the subordinates suggested that General An Yi be sent as a deputy envoy to accompany him, because of the good relationship between General An Yi and the generals of the Northwest Army, as well as General Feng Huanzhang's consistent good impression of General An Yi, General An Yi would be better to go with him."

Ge Jingen pondered for a while and solemnly made a suggestion, and everyone looked at An Yi who was thinking with their heads down.

An Yi was thinking about his thoughts, when he suddenly heard his name, he raised his head in some surprise: "What? Where do you let your subordinates go? Northwest? ”

Everyone laughed, and Chiang Kai-shek frowned unhappily: "That's it!" An Yi, you rush back to Nanjing immediately tomorrow, and I will send the gunboats of the Jiangfang Fleet to send you back to Tongguan with General He Yaozu. Also, in order to show the central government's concern for the people affected by the disaster in Shaanxi, the two special trains of relief grain urgently organized by the central government will go north at the same time, so get ready. ”

"This ——, subordinate obeys ...... order"