Chapter 249: The Sudden Appearance of the Saboteur (Subscription Requested!) ）

It was already more than six o'clock in the afternoon when the speech ended, and at the invitation of He Yingqin, Ma Zheng got into his car, and then went straight to the location of the dinner for Zhu Jie.

The dinner was not held at Lao Chiang's official residence, but was placed in the office building of the Ministry of Military Affairs.

When Ma Zheng and the others came, many high-ranking generals belonging to the Fifth and Ninth Theaters of the Kuomintang had already come, and although the vast majority of them did not know Ma Zheng, this did not prevent others from greeting Ma Zheng.

At seven o'clock in the evening, with the report of the guards outside, Chairman Jiang in military uniform appeared in the banquet hall, and under the protection of the personal guards and the warm applause of everyone, the old Jiang strode onto the temporary rostrum.

Lao Jiang walked to the old-fashioned megaphone, looked around at everyone present, and then said loudly: "The three towns of Wuhan are not easy to defend, but fortunately, the soldiers of our three armies used their lives to force the Japanese soldiers to lose half a step. In this battle, our army inflicted heavy losses on the invincible Japanese Central China Dispatch Army, completely annihilated two divisions and one brigade under the jurisdiction of the Central China Dispatch Army, severely damaged two of its divisions and regiments, and completely annihilated the 11th Combat Brigade of the Third Fleet of the Navy. ”

Before Lao Jiang's words were finished, there was warm applause below, which lasted for a long time.

Lao Jiang looked at all the people in the banquet hall with satisfaction, and saw that everyone was elated, and his mood was also a lot lighter, and he immediately said again: "The victory in this battle is not only due to the courage of the front-line soldiers to kill the enemy, but also to the reasonable tactics formulated by the staff and other decision-making bodies. You can imagine that if our army were to fight in the three towns, the flames of war would inevitably reach the city. Nanjing's lesson is not far away, and we must not forget it. If Wuhan wants to fight, it must fight from afar. To sum it up. Defending Wuhan without fighting in Wuhan is the best policy. Facts have proved that our strategy is more clever than that of the Japanese army, and it is certainly unexpected and reasonable that our army has won such a great victory in this battle. ”

Perhaps in order to avoid the arrogance and complacency of these generals present, Lao Jiang suddenly said: "Resisting Japan is a major event for the Chinese nation and the country, and since the beginning of the war, although we have suffered great losses, we have even lost the capital of the country. 80% of the country's industrial concentration has also fallen, but we have survived the most difficult times. The Japanese invaders' dream of killing China in three months was shattered, and our army played our military and national prestige in the battles of Pingxingguan, Taierzhuang, and Wuhan, and also achieved brilliant results, inflicting heavy casualties on the Japanese army. ”

"However, our army's losses are also extremely heavy, since the beginning of the war, almost every month there are senior generals martyred, this year our army sacrificed senior generals are: 29th Army Deputy Commander General Tong Linge, 9th Army Commander General Hao Mengling, 54th Division Commander Lieutenant General Liu Jiaqi, 67th Army Commander Lieutenant General Wu Keren, Air Force Major General Gao Zhihang, 172nd Division Deputy Commander Lieutenant General Xia Guozhang, 75th Division Deputy Commander Lieutenant General Wu Guozhang, 145th Division Commander General Rao Guohua, Deputy Commander of the Military Police Lieutenant General Xiao Shanling, 156th Division Chief of Staff Major General Yao Zhongying, Lieutenant General Liu Zhendong, commander of the Second Route Guerrilla of the Fifth Theater, General Wang Mingzhang, commander of the 122nd Division, Major General Zou Shaomeng, chief of staff of the 124th Division, Major General Fan Tinglan, commander of the 12th Fifth Corps, Major General Liu Guiwu, commander of the Sixth Cavalry Division, Lieutenant General Zhou Yuan, deputy commander of the 173rd Division, and Lieutenant General Li Bifan, commander of the 23rd Division, etc.......

"Maybe tomorrow, all of you here may also be on the list of sacrifices, as a soldier. You must be prepared to sacrifice your life for the country... You must bear in mind that the Chinese nation is originally a peace-loving nation, and the foreign policy of the Nationalist Government has always advocated self-existence at home and coexistence abroad. We will stick to this principle with all our might, and we hope for peace, not peace; Prepare for battle, but never seek war. We know that the situation after the war will be the only way for the whole country to sacrifice to the end, and there is no reason to get away with it. If the end of the war starts. That is, there is no distinction between north and south, and there is no distinction between old and young. No matter who we are, we all have the responsibility to defend our territory and resist the war, and we must all be determined to sacrifice everything, and the people of the whole country must be serious and calm and ready to defend ourselves. At this critical moment, the only thing to do is to rely on the unanimity of the whole country and obedience to discipline. Strict order. I hope that you will return to various places and convey this message to the community, so that you can understand the situation and be loyal to the country."

Ma Zheng was still very active in Lao Jiang's generous statement, although he also knew that Lao Jiang was just forced by the little devil to be anxious. Seeing that the Japanese army was clearly coming at the Nationalist Government and at him, Jiang and someone, if they did not resist the Japanese, they would have to sit back and wait for death, so Chairman Chiang behaved so heroically. Thinking about how he lost the three northeastern provinces at the beginning, and how he disbanded the 200,000 Northeast Army, how could he be a soft egg at that time?

However, it is still very heartening to hear such an impassioned speech, and besides, the exploits of the Nationalist Government on the frontal battlefield cannot be erased, and it is still beneficial to listen to it, but it is only to listen to it.

After Lao Jiang's speech, the banquet officially began. Although Ma Zheng has always been uninterested in this form of cocktail party, he is a soldier and does not like the welcome and send-off between politicians, compared to Ma Zheng's bandit style of drinking wine and eating meat in large bowls, Ma Zheng also knows that since he comes, he can only be next to him. It can't be helped, the environment dictates it.

During the banquet, several senior generals of the Kuomintang came over with wine glasses and chatted with Ma Zheng for a while, including famous generals such as He Yingqin, Chen Cheng and Xue Yue, and of course, Wang Zhonglian and Zhang Xuezhong, who were old acquaintances, which made Ma Zheng very happy. Especially Xue Yue took the initiative to toast him, which made Ma Zheng smile rarely. I still admire this Xue Laohu Ma Zheng very much, this old general's self-created Heavenly Furnace Combat Method can refine the little devil miserably, and he is worthy of an anti-Japanese hero.

After staying for a while, Ma Zheng was tired and tired, so he took a bottle of red wine to a corner and poured himself a drink. Although many people in the banquet hall wanted to have a relationship with Ma Zheng, the new anti-Japanese hero, after all, everyone had seen the combat effectiveness of the Seventh Division, which was really terrifying, and it was beneficial and harmless to have a good relationship with such an army.

But everyone also saw Ma Zheng's rejection of people thousands of miles away, thinking that it might be that this famous general of the Eighth Route Army might not be suitable for such a meeting, so no one was looking for fun to disturb him, and Ma Zheng also rarely enjoyed a quiet in such a noisy drinking party.

However, just after Ma Zheng put down a bottle of red wine and was about to leave early, a female reporter suddenly entered Ma Zheng's sight.

Although this female reporter is indeed very beautiful, what attracts Ma Zheng is not her appearance, but something in her hand - a fountain pen.

It was a rough black fountain pen, which looked like a man's use, and it looked awkward in a woman's hand. However, this is not the reason why Ma Zheng paid attention to this woman, but because Ma Zheng knew that this was not a pen at all, but an extremely dangerous camouflage gun.

As the most powerful soldier king, Ma Zheng has been in contact with camouflage guns since a very early age, and he has also encountered assassins who assassinate targets with camouflage guns many times when he was on guard duty, so he is very sensitive to camouflage guns.

The female reporter was holding a standard European-style pen gun, which was once widely used because of its small size and ease of processing. Before the First World War, pen guns of the "ZIP" construction were very popular in Europe, and their structure was particularly simple, the body consisted of two parts, the lower part was the chamber and the barrel, the upper part contained the spring and firing pin, and the barrel was mounted in the pen barrel. The pen clip of the fountain pen acts as a keystroke. The movement of the cap keeps the keystrokes in the firing state. All the pens that are ready can be put in your pocket. To shoot, simply turn the cap, hold the pen in the palm of your hand, press the keystrokes with your thumb, and you're ready to shoot.

This kind of antique-like camouflage gun Ma Zheng had seen the samples preserved back then when he was a student in the military academy, and the model was exactly the same as the model in the female reporter's hand, so even if Ma Zheng could be sure that this woman was a saboteur with bad intentions, he just didn't know who this woman's target was. (To be continued.) )