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Chapter 714: Behind the Leak

The backyard of Shengjia Banya Store on the shore of Xuanwu Lake in Nanjing is a very quiet and elegant place, surrounded by green trees, surrounded by green bamboo, the lake water is as clear as a mirror, the stars on the water surface are reflected, and the red walls and green tiles are set off from far and near, the scenery is extremely sultry. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

A group of soldiers in school uniforms sat in a wide and simple grass pavilion, and everyone staggered their cups and talked happily, but there was no hustle and bustle.

Originally, it was just an exclusive dinner for Dai Li and An Yi, but in the end, due to the need to implement the in-depth cooperation between the two departments one by one, several cadres under the command of the two were called to participate. Dai Li is surrounded by Yang Xuancheng and Liang Ganqiao, two right-hand men, and An Yi is accompanied by Liu Qing, who has concurrently served as the chief of the second section (intelligence section) of the fourth department, Zhang Yang, the chief of the first section (general affairs section), and Chen Yu, the chief of the fourth section (technical section).

The two departments talked while eating, and soon tacitly came up with a set of simple and practical cooperation plans and action contact methods, and did not leave until more than ten o'clock.

An Yi and the brothers drove back to the headquarters in Houzai Lane, and saw that the lights in the hall on the first floor were still bright, and they were quite strange in their hearts, it was already eleven o'clock in the evening, and with the good living habits maintained by Ou Yaoting and his wife for many years, they should have already rested at this time.

The careful Liu Qing approached An Yi who got out of the car in a few steps, pointed to the car parked not far away, and showed a mysterious smile.

As soon as An Yi saw the swarthy and shiny latest Chevrolet luxury sedan and license plate, he immediately understood who was coming, and immediately quietly climbed the steps with the brothers, walked into the hall, and greeted Song Ziwen, who was sitting on the reception sofa and chatting cordially with Ou Yaoting:

"Minister Song is here, An Yi can't wait at home without news, it's disrespectful!"

As soon as Ou Yaoting saw An Yi, he immediately stood up with a smile: "It's good to come back, Minister Song has been waiting for you for more than an hour, saying that he asked a lot of people, but they don't know where you went, and he also said that you didn't mean to avoid him!" ”

Song Ziwen didn't stand up, didn't even mean to move, sat on the elastic sofa, squinted at An Yi, and continued to pick up the coffee cup and drink it slowly.

An Yi shook his head and smiled, it was strange to say, Song Ziwen was polite and polite to everyone, but he was not polite to himself at any time, but An Yi had long been accustomed to Song Ziwen's attitude, so he didn't care at all, but sat down beside him very easily.

Shen Fengdao, Liu Qing and the others finished greeting Song Ziwen and Ou Yaoting, and when they saw An Yi nodding slightly, they said goodbye and left, heading to their own residence to the west of the house.

"Zhang Yang, you stay for a while."

Song Ziwen seemed to have eyes in the back of his head, and without looking back, he stopped Zhang Yang, who was tiptoeing behind him and trying to leave quietly.

Zhang Yang stuck out his tongue, walked to Song Ziwen's side with a smile, and politely asked what the world brother commanded? His eyes quietly looked at An Yi and grimaced.

An Yi smiled slightly, and didn't care too much, he knew that the Zhang family and the Song family had been friends for two generations, and since Song Ziwen stopped Zhang Yang, he must have something to order, so he let it be.

Song Ziwen raised his head and looked at Zhang Yang, pointed to the vacant seat beside An Yi, and motioned for him to sit down.

"An Yi, you must know that Wang Geng of my tax police regiment was arrested by the Military Justice Department of the Military Commission, right? You, the former chief of the general staff of the former enemy in the Songhu Theater and the current commander-in-chief of the former enemy in the theater, will never remember the brigade commander who fought desperately but was wronged, right? ”

"Wang Geng?"

An Yi recalled a little, and immediately nodded happily: "Of course I remember, but General Wang Geng is the chief head of the minister's tax police regiment, although he entered the battlefield in the name of the independent brigade of the Fifth Army, but his troops were under the command of the 19th Route Army under the repeated insistence of the minister, and directly obeyed General Cai's orders, so I have only met General Wang twice, once at the military meeting after receiving the defense, and once because he commanded the artillery battalion directly under the 19th Route Army to support the artillery support is very good, I specially went to the artillery position to inspect, At the same time, he personally declared the second-level combat merits for him.

However, due to the busy war, I didn't say anything to him during the two meetings, and he wore a pair of myopic glasses that were thicker than the bottom of a soy sauce bottle, so he probably didn't see me clearly. On 10 March, two hours before the military court arrested him for leaking secrets, the arrest document was delivered to me, and when I saw that General Cai and the director of the Political Department of the 19th Route Army had signed on it, I did not ask him what important secrets he had leaked. ”

As soon as Zhang Yang saw Song Ziwen, he knew that he was here for his beloved general Wang Geng. On the evening of 27 February, Wang Geng was captured by the Japanese army in the public concession, and the Japanese accused him of being a spy, interrogated him, and threatened to shoot him. On the evening of 29 March, the Shanghai Municipal Government lodged a serious protest with the US Consul General and other consuls of various countries, and under tremendous pressure from Britain, the United States, France, and other countries, Wang Geng was released by the Japanese army on 1 March. Recently, the media has spread the word that Wang Geng went to see Lu Xiaoman, the widow of the poet Xu Zhimo who died in the plane crash. Lu Xiaoman, who lost Xu Zhimo, was in great physical and mental pain. Wang Geng and Lu Xiaoman are in the same city, and it is normal for them to visit and comfort their ex-wife. However, the upper and lower levels of the 19th Route Army did not think so, and they accused Wang Geng of being suspected of betraying military secrets. Wang Geng was soon taken into custody by the General Headquarters of the 19th Route Army, relieved of his position as commander of the Independent Brigade, and transferred to the Military Judge Advocate General's Office.

Zhang Yang is very aware of the story of Wang Geng's leak case, and Wang Geng, who graduated from the artillery command major of the United States Military Academy at West Point, has always been a celebrity in Shanghai's social circles, and when he returned to China after graduation 12 years ago, he returned from the United States by ship with Zhang Yang's cousin Zhang Yi, and his relationship with the Zhang family is extremely deep. Before Zhang Yang joined the army, he had eaten at the same table with Wang Geng more than once, and Zhang Yang had already introduced this person to An Yi in detail before Wang Geng's case, but now he saw An Yi pretending to be confused unhurriedly, and he wanted to laugh but didn't dare to laugh, so he could only endure it.

Song Ziwen frowned, glanced at Zhang Yang, whose face was flushed, and didn't care about An Yi's excuse at all, and asked unceremoniously:

"An Yi, do you also believe the overwhelming rumors in the newspapers, thinking that Wang Geng was caught by the Japanese because of his inappropriate style and sneaking into the concession to tryst with his ex-wife during the war?"

"Minister Song, don't worry, right and wrong have their own judgment, Skynet is magnificent and negligent, I believe that the Military Judge Advocate General's Department will figure out the problem.

This matter has a great impact, rumors are spreading in the society, and there are different opinions, I heard that the principal is furious about this, and he personally intervenes in this case, and even the second department of the staff headquarters is not qualified to intervene, I just don't have the ability to manage it! What's more, it seems that the interests of the 19th Route Army are involved, and I, the chief of staff who coordinates operations, am even more embarrassed to ask, why didn't Minister Song directly explain the matter to the principal in detail? An Yi finished speaking slowly, and didn't forget to ask.

Song Ziwen glared angrily: "What do you mean by this?" Do you really think Wang Geng is such a ridiculous person? A high-achieving student who graduated from the West Point Military Academy, known for his generosity and specialization in art, was deeply respected by all walks of life, but because he offended people because of his outspoken reasoning about the local mistakes on the battlefield of the 19th Route Army, and then he was taken advantage of by some generals with ulterior motives to take advantage of his accidental capture, and made something out of nothing, causing an uproar in public opinion, and making a talented and promising general discredited and unjustly imprisoned. Seeing that Wang Geng couldn't turn over at all, and watching the tax police regiment that I had worked so hard to build be disgraced? ”

"Ziwen is angry! Speak slowly, speak slowly......"

Ou Yaoting held Song Ziwen's long-necked vase that shook the table, turned to An Yi and whispered: "Yi'er, the stakes are high, you don't fight anymore, okay?" Everyone is their own person, so if you have any frankness, I'm sure you'll have a way. ”

An Yi nodded a little embarrassed: "To be honest, although I am not very familiar with General Wang Geng, I judged that General Wang Geng was an excellent general with real talent and resoluteness from the command of the tax police regiment led by Wang Geng to fight side by side with the Zhang Yan Brigade of the 19th Route Army on the front line of Jiangwan, from the victory that the officers and men of the tax police regiment dared to fight bayonets, and from the fact that he assisted the artillery of the 19th Route Army to accurately bombard the Japanese positions three times and successfully complete the task of suppressing artillery fire.

It is impossible for such an excellent general, who is also the chief of the tax police regiment of the elite unit of the whole army, not to know the secrecy regulations, and still less to go to the public concession where the Japanese are rampant and fool around with the confidential documents issued during the afternoon meeting; I don't believe that he was captured by the Japanese army during a tryst with his ex-wife Lu Xiaoman, who can paint, on the bed of the Licha Hotel opened by the British, because the Japanese can't enter the British territory at all, and if they want to arrest people, they must first ask for the consent of the British, so the nonsense described in the newspaper is all nonsense.

However, I don't believe it's useless, and no one in this case has asked me for my opinion, but when the charges are about to be arrested, I will routinely report to the chief of staff.

Also, this case has nothing to do with my authority, Wang Geng is not under my jurisdiction at all, he is not under my direct command, and it is faintly involved in the responsibility for the greater losses caused by the fierce battle in the temple in the later period, in this case, Minister Song, what can I say? ”

Song Ziwen was silent for a while, his face became much better-looking, nodded approvingly to An Yi, and sighed sincerely:

"If Wang Geng can hear your words, I'm afraid he will be grateful, you are really an excellent commander, with a keen eye, in one word...... Not bad! One of the biggest reasons is naturally the contradiction between our tax police regiment and the 19th Route Army, plus Wang Geng's personality is a little arrogant, and it is easy to offend people when he speaks, so he planted the root cause.

Wang Geng was released under the full mediation of the US Embassy, and upon his return, he encountered the impending fierce battle at Miaoxing, where Wang Geng and his chief of staff Mo Xiong twice pointed out the loopholes in the 19th Route Army's formation, believing that Zhang Yan's brigade's defensive focus was seriously wrong. Maybe it was because the language was not very polite, and the two sides quarreled, and our tax police team offended people inexplicably, but it really went wrong in the fierce battle a few hours later, and it was the problem where Wang Geng pointed out the mistake. Commander-in-Chief Cai saw that the battle situation was critical, and ordered Wang Geng to lead his troops to reinforce, but Wang Geng did not obey, but led his troops to surround the flank of the Japanese 27th Wing, and finally fought hard for several hours to relieve the siege, repelled the enemy and restored the position, but although Zhang Yan's brigade finally withstood with the support of reinforcements, it suffered heavy losses due to six hours of hard fighting.

Now that I think about it carefully, if it weren't for a certain general of the 19th Route Army who secretly reported this false crime to a reporter with ulterior motives, he would never have concocted an overwhelming amount of vulgar news, and Wang Geng would not have been imprisoned in an angry accusation, so that I couldn't save him even if I jumped up and down, and I had a fight with your principal for this. ”

Everyone was shocked when they heard this, Chu Er, who had just heard the table slapping and was worried about going downstairs to check, also opened her eyes and opened her mouth slightly, feeling incredible, but An Yi clearly knew that this was true, Song Ziwen, the eldest uncle, and his brother-in-law Chairman Jiang had not fought once or twice, and Song Ziwen would suffer every time he fought, where was he a weak scholar who had been in the army for many years and had practiced grappling and fighting? But Chairman Jiang was not happy, every time he won the battle against his mother-in-law, he would be very angry, and his wife Song Meiling also complained that he was bullying, which made him embarrassed.

Among them, the most powerful fight was not long after the establishment of the tax police corps, the reason is that Song Ziwen looked down on the Whampoa graduates at all, all Whampoa students, the tax police corps does not want a single one, the regiment commander and above the officers are all elites who have returned from studying in the United States, and the middle and low-level officers are either the young officers of the Northeast Army whom he recommended his brother Zhang Xueliang, or the military circles that Song Ziwen made friends with in the Guangdong army during his tenure as the finance minister of the Guangzhou government, and the salaries of officers and soldiers are extremely high, almost twice as high as the Anjia Army, which has the most generous treatment in the army, and the American-style education and training are fully implemented. The equipment is all German equipment, and even the imitations of the Jiangnan factory are not eye-catching, and they have to be imported originally, so that the officers and men of the whole army are proud to be able to join the tax police corps, and the teachers and students of Huangpu are even more complaining and jealous, which makes Chiang Kai-shek, who is the principal of Huangpu and has always been proud of the teachers and students of Huangpu, how can he not be angry?

It is precisely because of this that Chiang Kai-shek refused to allocate military salaries and materials to the tax police regiment, and refused to give the tax police regiment military establishment, Song Ziwen was angry and got up, rushed to Chiang Kai-shek's mansion to quarrel, and the two scuffled after lifting the table, and finally Song Ziwen, who had a blue nose and swollen face, went away with hatred, and easily flipped his palm a few times, and the Bank of Eight immediately gave Song Ziwen full support, and paid a part of the interest on the annual Nanjing government loan to Song Ziwen.

Chiang Kai-shek can't control it now, because he has to borrow huge amounts of money from the Bank of Eight Nations through Song Ziwen every year to support the operation of the huge government and army, and he can't do it without Song Ziwen, and the interest on the arrears is different, and the cycle is different, Chiang Kai-shek can't do it even if he wants to figure it out, plus he was counted down by his mother-in-law and wife, and Qi Qiran also met Song Ziwen's requirements.

Although Soong Tzu-wen could not defeat Chiang Kai-shek in a fight, he was always able to become a victor in essence, and almost every time. Although these anecdotes are very secretive, they are not a secret to Principal Jiang's henchman Gao Tu An Yi, and there is no need to inquire about it, and authoritative sources will tell him.

"What are you laughing at? Gloat? Song Ziwen glared at An Yi in annoyance.

An Yi hurriedly put away his thoughts, smiled, and said apologetically: "I'm thinking, your tax police regiment may have gone too far, to put it mildly, it is called unruly, flying and domineering, and its combat effectiveness is not bad and the armament is better, but it is really unpleasant to look at."

Do you still remember the training you asked me to inspect the tax police regiment when I came back from an overseas expedition? All of them are yellow-skinned and black-haired, not tall, and a third of the officers and men are of Liangguang nationality, and they even shout passwords in English during exercises, and the standard Chinese language is not good enough to speak English, tsk!

Fortunately, I'm not surprised to see An Yi, I'm quite receptive to new things, and it's okay to smile at the moment, but do you know what the soldiers of the whole army will think? Even the principal has been angry many times for this, this time the principal said that he would severely punish Wang Geng, I am afraid there is also this reason, and the 19th Route Army has just received 1,500 unarmed recruits sent by ship from Li Zongren from Guangdong, and someone from the tax police regiment stabbed Mr. Guofu, so that these 1,500 recruits could not get any equipment, but made me, the chief of staff, miserable, and had to frugally squeeze out a regimental equipment to send it over, which calmed the already sharp contradiction between the 19th Route Army and the Central Military Commission.

This time, the principal favored the 19th Route Army, presumably in order to save the current hard-won situation, and to make a small punishment to the tax police regiment. ”

Song Ziwen nodded thoughtfully, picked up the cup and thought slowly.

Ou Yaoting was very surprised in his heart, it was difficult for him to understand that with such a prominent identity as Song Ziwen, his son-in-law An Yi dared to speak to the God of Wealth in such a tone, and Song Ziwen didn't seem to have the slightest sense of blame, and his heart that was originally quite worried about his son-in-law was relieved a lot.

Zhang Yang has been grinning and snickering on the side, admiring his boss's ability very much, and sighing that I am afraid that only An Yi dares to talk to Song Ziwen, who is the vice president of the Executive Yuan and Minister of Finance, so big and small.

Only An Yi was very calm in his heart, he knew that Song Ziwen's attitude towards him was not as unpretentious as his appearance, in fact, in the bottom of his heart, the two had already cherished each other and supported each other, as for why such a relationship existed with such an incongruous appearance, I am afraid that even An Yi himself couldn't tell the reason, but An Yi enjoyed this way of getting along very much, and found it interesting and felt so natural.