Song Zhewu admired the courage of the tall young man very much, Song Zhewu looked at him and said, "Yes, I can still think of your instructor at this time!" What is your name? What position did you hold in the Fifth Route Army? ”

The tall young man was not afraid at all, and looked at Song Zhewu and reported loudly: "Report to the commander-in-chief, my name is Shi Ming, graduated from the fifth phase of the Northeast Army Lecture Martial Arts Hall, and served as a platoon commander in the Fifth Route Army. ”

"The Northeast Route Army lectures on martial arts? Then why aren't you in the Northeast Army? It's been a few years since the fifth phase was supposed to graduate, why is he still a platoon leader? Song Zhewu asked strangely.

The tall young man said helplessly: "During the Second Northern Expedition, my unit was disarmed in Luandong, and we were incorporated into the Fifth Route Army. In the Fifth Route Army, only Hunan people will rise fast, and we can only wait slowly. ”

Song Zhewu nodded, looked at a few people and said: "Have you ever thought about it, any army is disciplined, no army will allow desertion to happen, and desertion in any army is a felony!" If they are like this, how can the troops still fight?

Shi Minghong said: "Commander-in-chief, there is no way to do it, the Fifth Route Army not only has a low salary, but the officials also deduct our military salary, since we can't get the military salary we deserve, we are naturally unwilling to go to Hunan again." We have caused trouble to the commander-in-chief, and we are willing to let the commander-in-chief deal with it. ”

Tao Rong saw the death of a major general at the beginning, plus more than 30 officers and soldiers of the Fifth Route Army, and was very worried about Song Zhewu. Tang Shengzhi is old and has always been arrogant, but during the Northern Expedition, he saw that Tang Shengzhi not only did not buy the face of Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi, but even Chiang Kai-shek wanted to give him three points. This time, the Fifth Route Army's arrest of deserters is justified, and so many people have died, he will definitely not give up, it is certain that Song Zhewu will hand over the deserters and murderers, and there must be hundreds of people who beat and kill people, plus the deserters, if these people are handed over to Tang Shengzhi, Tang Shengzhi, who is angry, will shoot these people to death. But if these people were not handed over, Song Zhewu would not be able to explain to Tang Shengzhi, or even to Chiang Kai-shek.

Seeing that Song Zhewu accused these people of desertion, he thought that he wanted to hand them over to appease Tang Shengzhi's anger. Tao Rong couldn't bear to watch these people being arrested and executed, and wanted to persuade Song Zhewu, but when she thought that she had just come to the Fourth Route Army, it was hard to say this, after all, Song Zhewu was very responsible for this matter. It would be nice if Xiao Guodong or Zhang Yafei were here, the helpless Tao Rong turned his gaze to Li Wentian, and Li Wentian had no choice, so he shook his head slightly.

Song Zhewu slowed down his tone and said: "If I knew that you were deserters when you joined the army, I wouldn't accept you, after all, if Tang Shengzhi came to ask me for someone, I wouldn't be able to explain it." ”

Seeing that those deserters thought that they were going to send them back, Song Zhewu said firmly: "However, since you have put on the uniform of our Fourth Route Army, you are my soldiers!" I, Song Zhewu, will never let my soldiers be harmed by others. ”

Song Zhewu's two contrasting words before and after made everyone not come back to their senses for a while, but Tao Rong understood that these people were saved, and said to Shi Ming and the others with a smile on his face: "Don't you hurry up and thank Commander-in-Chief Xie to leave you." ”

Shi Ming, who understood it, and many deserters all saluted Song Zhewu excitedly. "Since you have put on the uniform of our Fourth Route Army, you are my soldiers." This sentence made all the soldiers present, not only deserters, but also the Northwest Army who had just joined the Fourth Route Army, and even the officers and soldiers of the Fourth Route Army very excited, and they all felt that it was worth giving their lives to such a person.

However, this sentence also left sequelae, and when Song Zhewu's sentence was later widely circulated in the Fourth Route Army, it was reduced to "Put on a military uniform and be my soldier." So much so that later, some people who were not very qualified in the physical examination borrowed military uniforms from the people of the Fourth Route Army, and wore military uniforms to find recruiters to register him, and because of Song Zhewu's famous saying, the recruiters did not dare not want it, so they had to register him obediently.

When Song Zhewu found out, he was so angry that he couldn't cry or laugh, and finally issued a death order: "Whoever dares to lend his military uniform to others will be fired." That's when the trend stopped.

Song Zhewu said to the hearers: "The personnel of the Political Training Department and the Security Department are not clear when recruiting soldiers, and Wang Xinggang and Fang Zhen will be responsible for the leadership of this matter, and each will be fined one month's military salary. ”

The recruitment of troops has always been the responsibility of Wang Xinggang's political training office, and the security department only sent personnel to assist, in fact, it was surveillance, and everyone knew this. In fact, Fang Zhen knew about recruiting a lot of deserters from the Fifth Route Army, but his task was to prevent outsiders from infiltrating and subverting the Fourth Route Army. So after getting the report, Fang Zhen didn't pay much attention to it, so he didn't report it to Song Zhewu.

Fang Zhen was busy now, and Song Zhewu hinted that he should carefully check the recruits that Wang Xing had just recruited, focusing on the personnel who came to the army when Wang Xing was first in charge of recruitment, especially those who had student status. That is, the personnel of the Fourth Route Army who entered the troops after arriving at the source. However, the number of these people is too large, there are tens of thousands of people, and he is now investigating the people that Wang Xinggang recruited in Wuhan this time, where he has time to take care of these things, just ask his people to pay attention to the reaction of the Fifth Route Army.

He turned his head to the platoon commander of the platoon who was on duty outside the training ground just now and did not stop Hu Yisan and the others, and said solemnly: "Those two sentries did not stop the people of the Fifth Route Army, they are your soldiers, and you are also responsible. However, you have to remember that in the future, if anyone dares to break into the sentry post, they will shoot if they don't stop stopping and kill them. ”

The platoon commander had been worried about his killing of the chief of the Military Law Division of the Fifth Route Army, and when he heard that Song Zhewu didn't mention it at all, he relieved himself and hurriedly said: "Yes, there will be no more killings who forcibly break into the sentry post!" ”

Song Zhewu shouted loudly again: "Huang Dafu." ”

Song Zhewu's voice startled Huang Dafu, he knew that it was finally his turn to deal with himself. Hurriedly replied loudly: "Here." The heart said, the commander-in-chief is gently putting down the below, but the two officers, Wang Xinggang and Fang Zhen, have been punished. But after all, it was not the soldiers they recruited personally, but they were negligent, but they personally commanded and killed so many people in the Fifth Route Army, if you really want to be guilty, he must be the number one.

Everyone also thought that Song Zhewu must deal with Huang Dafu severely, and the Fifth Route Army had killed so many people, otherwise Tang Shengzhi would make a fuss, and Song Zhewu would not be able to make sense anywhere. They all held their breath, waiting for Song Zhewu to announce the decision to punish Huang Dafu, and secretly felt sorry for Huang Dafu in their hearts.

"Huang Dafu, deputy commander of the first battalion of the third regiment, rescued his comrades-in-arms, dealt with it decisively, and was promoted to lieutenant colonel." Song Zhewu's appointment surprised everyone present! It can be said that it was under the command of Huang Dafu that he killed so many friendly troops at once, and there was a major general, such a big matter, not only did he not receive any punishment, but he was also promoted to lieutenant colonel.

Song Zhewu said loudly to everyone again: "All of you must remember that all those who wear this grass-green military uniform, as long as he does not betray our Fourth Route Army, does not do anything sorry for our Fourth Route Army, and does not flee from the battle, they are all our comrades-in-arms, our brothers and sisters, and for anyone who dares to hurt our brothers and sisters, we should use bayonets and bullets against them!" Did you hear that? ”

The excited Huang Dafu took the lead and shouted: "I heard it! ”

The crowd shouted, "I hear! ”

Shi Ming also took the lead in shouting: "We have followed the commander-in-chief in our lives, whoever dares to be sorry for the commander-in-chief, we will kill him!" ”

It took a long time for everyone's excited voices to stop, and Song Zhewu ordered all the people of the Fifth Route Army to be released. Only then did he return to the headquarters with Tao Rong and Li Wentian. Regarding Song Zhewu's decision to release the people of the Fifth Route Army to go back, Tao Rong opened her mouth to stop it, but looking at Song Zhewu with a calm face, Tao Rong finally did not speak.

Back at the headquarters, Tao Rong said: "Commander-in-chief, do you want all units to enter a state of combat readiness, this time we killed so many people Tang Shengzhi, with his surname, he will definitely not give up." During the Northern Expedition, I was the chief of staff of the Seventh Army, and I met Tang Shengzhi, who was the most subordinate to protect his shortcomings, even Li Zongren and Chiang Kai-shek also wanted to give him a few points. ”

Speaking of which, Tao Rong remembered Song Zhewu's approach just now, this is more protective than Tang Shengzhi, Huang Dafu led people to kill Hu Yisan, and was even promoted to lieutenant colonel, it is estimated that Tang Shengzhi will not be like this. If it was Tang Shengzhi, it was estimated that Huang Dafu would be temporarily avoided, and then it would be said that Huang Dafu was afraid of crime and absconded. When he said this in front of Song Zhewu, he couldn't help but be suspected of saying a short word in front of the lame, and he couldn't help laughing, and laughed out loud.

Song Zhewu couldn't help but laugh when he saw Li Wentian, understood what the two meant, and said with a smile: "Are you saying that I am also short of Hu's subordinates, and I am even more powerful than Tang Shengzhi?" ”

Li Wentian was afraid that Song Zhewu would not be able to get off the stage, so he hurriedly said: "Chief of Staff Tao, you were not at the scene at the time, but the commander-in-chief and I saw it from beginning to end. This Hu Yisan is also too arrogant, as if this is their own training ground of the Fifth Route Army, and he rushed in directly with people to arrest and beat people, without taking us seriously at all, and it was this Hu Yisan who shot first. ”

Song Zhewu waved his hand and said: "It's no wonder Hu Yisan, if he doesn't shoot, it is estimated that these people he brought will be killed." It's just that Hu Yisan, including Tang Shengzhi, chose the wrong person, and they didn't look at me Song Zhewu was so easy to bully? If Tang Shengzhi came to me, maybe it would be okay to say, but since Tang Shengzhi was disdainful of me, then there was nothing to talk about. ”

(To be continued)