Chapter 13: The Choice I

“…… Yue Weihan is hereby conferred the rank of colonel, and immediately led the remnants of the Baoshan Battalion to Ning (Nanjing) City for training, and was responsible for the preparation for the establishment of the Seventh Regiment of the newly formed Third Brigade of the Central Military Academy Teaching Corps. This order, Chairman of the Military Committee of the National Revolutionary Army, Jiang Wenzheng, September 16, 26th year of the Republic of China. ”

After Gu Zhutong read the message, the entire 98th Division headquarters suddenly became silent.

Whether it was the group of senior generals who came with Gu Zhutong, or the senior generals of the 98th Division such as Xia Zhongyu and Huang Meiwu, there was some inexplicable jealousy in their eyes when they looked at Yue Weihan, the Central Military Academy Teaching Corps was not an ordinary army, it was the Imperial Forest Army in the Imperial Doctor Forest Army!

With the current situation, the teaching corps may be expanded into a group army at any time!

At that time, Yue Weihan, this kid, was probably transformed from a colonel and regiment commander directly to a major general and brigade commander! But how old is this kid this year? It has been less than two years since I graduated from the Central Military Academy! How many Whampoa seniors are still working hard for the battalion and regiment levels, but this kid is directly soaring to the top and is going to be a major general and brigade commander!?

It's crazy to think about such an encounter!

Gu Zhutong looked pleased, among the people present, he was the only one who knew Yue Weihan's details, and his military exploits and Huangpu background alone were not enough for Yue Weihan to ascend to the position of commander of the Seventh Regiment of the Third Brigade of the Central Military Academy Teaching Corps, but if you add Fenghua's identity, the situation is completely different, who doesn't know that the old man values the most local feelings?

Among all the people present, the one who was the most shocked was of course Yue Weihan himself.

Yue Weihan really didn't expect that his stay would alarm Principal Jiang, but thinking of the comments on Principal Jiang in the later historical circles, and then thinking of his own Fenghua excuses, Yue Weihan was relieved, but then again, he really asked Yue Weihan to take the remnants of the Baoshan Battalion to Nanjing for training, and he didn't do it!

In the eyes of others, this is a great honor, and it is also a good opportunity to rise to prominence.

But in Yue Weihan's opinion, this is a dead end at all! What kind of unit is the Central Military Academy Teaching Corps? That is the party-state Imperial Forest Army, the backbone of the army is all the graduates of the Central Military Academy, and the loyalty of these cadets to President Jiang is beyond imagination, and it is undoubtedly a fool's dream for Yue Weihan to change the political tendencies of these cadets.

Yue Weihan is really going to Nanjing, and if he really wants to become the head of this regiment, then in the end he has only two ways to go.

Either he fled alone and traveled thousands of miles to the northwest of Shanxi Province to defect to the Eighth Road, or he waited for death in the teaching corps of the Central Military Academy, and in the future, he would be exiled to Taiwan and die in a foreign land, and there was no other possibility for him.

Changing to other troops, even if it is a descendant of the Central Army such as the 36th Division, the 87th Division, and the 88th Division, even if Yue Weihan is unable to pull the troops into the Eighth Route Camp at this stage, he will still have the opportunity to revolt before the Liberation War in the future.

Obviously, these two paths are not what Yue Weihan wants, so he will not go to Nanjing if he dies, let alone become the head of this regiment!

According to Yue Weihan's predetermined plan, he had two things to do, the first thing was to save the fate of more than 600 soldiers in Yao Changqing's battalion as much as possible, after all, they saved his life, and now this task has been completed, although only Liao Liao 42 people were rescued, but they left a fire for Yao Ying.

The second thing is to bring a force to Shanxi as much as possible, so that after joining the Eighth Route camp, no matter how bad it is, he can still get a division commander to be the commander, instead of starting from the most basic level of the big soldiers, there is no way, Yue Weihan is a modern person after all, and he always has to think more realistically than the older generation of proletarian revolutionaries.

Therefore, if Yue Weihan is allowed to stay in the 98th Division as the commander of the regiment, then he welcomes it with both hands, but if he goes to the Central Military Academy to be the commander of the teaching corps, then he will be exempted.

Yue Weihan didn't hesitate anymore, and said to Gu Zhutong: "Boss, I have something to say." ”

"Ah, if you have something to say, just say it." Gu Zhutong bowed his head lightly, he didn't expect what Yue Weihan was going to say at all.

Yue Weihan glanced around at the many [***] senior generals present, and said loudly: "I promised Battalion Commander Yao Changqing that I would live and die with all the officers and men of the 3rd Battalion, although I went to Ningcheng to act on orders, it was inevitable that I would abandon my comrades and flee from the battle, so I would like to listen to the opinions of all the officers and men of the 3rd Battalion first." ”

"It should be, it should be." Gu Zhutong nodded repeatedly, but the boss was unhappy in his heart.

How did the Central Military Academy Teaching Corps do this kind of moth? First of all, the general captain Gui Yongqing openly disobeyed the old man's order, and let go of the opportunity to go to Sichuan to expand the army and become a general, but he had to lead his troops to the front line in Songhu, and now there is another Yue Weihan, and he has the opportunity to go to Ningcheng to be a colonel and even a major general and brigade commander, but he has to stay in this 98th division?

The [***] senior generals next to him also changed their faces, some people despised it, some admired it, and some people were confused!

Soon, the remnants of the Baoshan Battalion 42 people were assembled in the courtyard of the 98th Division, and Gu Zhu and other senior generals of the party-state also left the headquarters and came to the courtyard.

Yue Weihan stopped in front of the queue, and the forty-two remnants of the Baoshan Battalion immediately straightened their chests.

Yue Weihan and the Baoshan Battalion didn't get along for a long time, and it only took half a month to get full, but in the feeling of these remnants of the defeated generals, Yue Weihan seemed to have been their official for many years! Gu Zhutong and the [***] generals present could feel that there was something inexplicable in the eyes of the remnants of the Baoshan Battalion looking at Yue Weihan.

"Take a break." Yue Weihan raised his hand to salute in return, and then said in a deep voice, "I just received a telegram from Shangfeng, asking us to go to Ningcheng to expand, I will be promoted to colonel and regiment commander, your company commander will be promoted to battalion commander, platoon commander will be promoted to company commander, and squad leader will be promoted to platoon commander, but what I want to tell you is that now troops all over the country are asking to join the war, and they are asking to come to the Songhu front line to fight a decisive battle with Yuekou, but we want to leave our comrades at this time to expand and promote in the rear. ”

In an instant, Gu Zhutong's face became gloomy, and Yue Weihan's attitude was undoubtedly revealed in these words.

"Nonsense!" In the crowd, Cheng Cheng, commander-in-chief of the left-wing cluster corps, couldn't help but scold in a low voice, "I don't know how to lift!" ”

"Yes, there will definitely be people who will scold me for selling my name behind my back, and I don't know how to lift up!" Yue Weihan seemed to hear Cheng Cheng's voice, and retorted coldly, "But what I want to say is that it is better to be scolded by a few people for being famous and ignorant of promotion than to be scolded by the people of the whole world for being afraid of death and war, and to flee from the battle!" As a soldier, the greatest shame is to be afraid of death and war, and to flee from battle! Brothers, do you say, should we go to Ningcheng to be promoted and expanded, or should we stay and fight side by side with the brothers of the 98th Division? ”

"Stay!"

"Stay!"

"Stay!"

Forty-two voices suddenly converged into an incomparably neat shout, and the huge wave of sound threatened to tear over the tiles on the roof of the division headquarters.

Yue Weihan turned abruptly, saluted Gu Zhutong with a standard military salute, and said solemnly: "General seat, this is the voice of all the officers and men of the Baoshan Battalion, we don't want to leave the Songhu front line at this time, we don't want to be cowards who escaped from the battle, we want to stay and kill the enemy side by side with the brothers of the 98th Division, please forgive me, and please forgive me." ”

"Okay, manly man, lift the three-foot Qingfeng, where can you not kill the widow? It's okay to stay, it's okay, you don't have to worry about sitting there, I'll explain it for you. Gu Zhu said perfunctory two sentences without smiling, and finally said meaningfully, "Young man, you can do it yourself." ”

After saying that, Gu Zhutong turned around and walked out of the 98th Division without looking back.

The [***] senior generals who came with Gu Zhutong also brushed their sleeves away, especially General Cheng, the commander-in-chief of the left-wing cluster corps, who looked even more unkind, but he endured it and did not have a seizure.

Although Yue Weihan disobeyed President Jiang's telegram, his reasons were extremely high-sounding, from the perspective of the main principle alone, even President Jiang could not accuse Yue Weihan in the slightest, who could openly accuse patriotic soldiers of killing the enemy and serving the country? Not only could he not point fingers, but he even had to praise Yue Weihan a few words against his will.

However, there are also many people who sigh for Yue Weihan, including Xia Zhongyu, the commander of the 98th Division.

Yue Weihan would rather give up the opportunity to go to Ningcheng to expand the 98th Division to stay in the 98th Division, which made Xia Zhongyu both moved and regretful, and it was naturally Yue Weihan's trust in the 98th Division, but the regret was that Yue Weihan had already offended Deputy Chief Gu of the theater and the top General Fengcheng of the 98th Division, and he was afraid that he would not be better in the future.

Only Yue Weihan didn't care much in his heart, if he had no future in the [***] camp, then he didn't want to stay in [***] for a long time, he just wanted to take a [***] army to Shanxi to defect to the Eighth Road, he was not greedy, and the troops didn't want much, so he would be content to take away two or three thousand elite veterans of the regiment.

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