Chapter 21: The Night Feast

Back to the provincial political axe, Song Zhewu found the logistics chief of the brigade headquarters and Wang Xinggang who came to Beiping with him. The director of the logistics department had come to Peking to purchase medicines and daily necessities for the troops, and when he met Song Zhewu, he immediately reported the procurement of materials to Song Zhewu in detail. The procurement of materials this time is basically smooth, and the drugs have been purchased through Union Hospital, and the quality and quantity are guaranteed; On the contrary, it is said that the procurement cost of supplies has taken some twists and turns, not that they can't buy it, but the amount they want is too large, a kind of goods will cost 100,000 yuan at a time, and many businesses do not have so much, so often a kind of goods have to run to several to complete.

Since Wang Xinggang was appointed director of the political training department, Song Zhewu was very supportive of him, and not only did he take charge of the political training and education of the troops, but he also added another task, that is, to set up a gendarmerie under the main training department to take charge of military discipline picketing. Although the two departments of political training and military police pickets do not go to the battlefield, they do have a very important role and great authority in the army, and Wang Xinggang is still very grateful to Song Zhewu for handing over these two important departments to himself, a newcomer who has just come to the security brigade, and even because of his identity, he is still a little nervous, and when he has not received further instructions, he still wants to sincerely help Song Zhewu and do a good job.

The gendarmerie was quickly formed. He selected 40 people from all the personnel with a high school degree or above in the whole security brigade provided by Xiao Guodong, and these people wrote political training materials and conducted political training education for the soldiers. However, after a long time, one shortcoming became very obvious, that is, the soldiers found the political training course boring and boring. Wang Xinggang thought about it, and finally had an idea, found Song Zhewu, and told him about the situation of political training, but Song Zhewu had no good way. Wang Xinggang told Song Zhewu that 99 percent of the people in the security brigade were peasants, and the use of spring and white snow for them would definitely not have an effect. Song Zhewu was very happy when he heard this, and thought: 'You are worthy of being a GCD member, this propaganda work is well done!' Immediately raise both hands in favor, all the talents needed by Wang Xinggang have full authority to find, come back and report to the General Staff Office for the record, need money to go to the chief of staff, but there is only one requirement, political training and propaganda are absolutely not allowed to leave the scope of patriotism. Therefore, Wang Xinggang has made three trips to and from Beiping in the past half a month, and has publicized a lot of publicity and recruited talents in various universities in Beiping, especially Beiping Art College.

Wang Xinggang knew that Song Zhewu cared about this matter, and immediately told him: "88 talents of all kinds have been recruited, including blowing, playing, playing, singing, and writing. "They have been informed that they can leave for Laiyuan at any time." Are these people all from Beiping? If so, give more settling-in allowances, after all, go with us to drill ravines. Wang Xinggang agreed to go out to make arrangements.

Because Song Zhewu said that he was going back to Laiyuan, that night, Shang Zhen invited Song Zhewu, Liu Pei and Yang Xiaoou, the commander of the 35th Division of Shang Zhen's Department, to sit in his living room in the backyard of the provincial political axe. During the banquet, Shang Zhen gave a detailed account of the confrontation drill of the military academy. In the afternoon, Shang Zhen had already told Liu Pei about the military academy, and mentioned it again, mainly to Yang Xiaoou.

Yang Xiaoou, like Shang Zhen, is not from Shanxi, but from Suizhou, Hubei, and has been following Shang Zhen since graduating from Baoding Military Academy, and is Shang Zhen's absolute confidant. Yang Xiaoou listened very carefully, and asked for some details in detail from time to time. Half a month ago, Shang Zhen asked him to send someone to conduct a confrontation drill with the military academy, and specially instructed him to send the strongest troops, and asked him to personally lead the team. As Shang Zhen's confidant, he naturally understood his commander's thoughts, and Shang Zhen wanted to truly test the training level of the military academy. After several confrontation drills, Yang Xiaoou couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed, except for the tactical confrontation drill, which was a draw, the other 35th divisions were all defeated. But what he didn't expect was that the student army of the military academy was defeated by the security brigade, a young man seven or eight years younger than him, who had trained a group of peasants into such a well-trained unit in two years, and Yang Xiaoou thought that he could not do it. In the past six months, I was still dissatisfied with my old commander's vigorous support for the security brigade, but now it seems that this vision is very unique.

"Xiao Ou, the training of the 35th Division needs to be strengthened! You have always had a very high vision, the confrontation drill between the 35th Division and the military academy is what you have seen with your own eyes, and the ability of the cadets of the military academy should be said to be very strong, originally I thought so, but today I saw Wenge's team, which really made us old soldiers ashamed! On the one hand, Yang Xiaoou was reminded that there is still a mountain high, and the troops of the 35th Division still need to strengthen training, and there is no meaning to blame; On the other hand, he also sincerely praised Song Zhewu.

Song Zhewu saw that Yang Xiaoou was a little cramped by Shang Zhen's words, and wanted to relieve Yang Xiaoou, but he couldn't find a suitable language for a while, and was hesitating, Yang Xiaoou had already stood up: "Xiaoou didn't bring the troops well, and he was ashamed of the old commander." "Sit, sit. Sit down and say. Shang Zhen knew that what he just said was a bit heavy, and Yang Xiaoou couldn't stand it and apologized.

"Huh." Liu Pei saw what Shang Zhen meant, and said with a smile: "Xiao Ou, the combat effectiveness of the 35th Division is not only the best in our 32nd Army, but also all the troops in the Pingjin area, not to mention it." In October, Bai Chongxi organized the colonel of the Fourth Group Army in North China, we all saw it, there is one thing you don't know, today I can show you the bottom, Qiyu came back and told me that if the 35th Division goes, it will definitely be the first. Qiyu knows this in his heart. You don't have to blame yourself, it's not that you don't train the troops well, but that the security brigade is too strong, and Wenge is simply a training genius. Saying that, he picked up his wine glass: "We have a discerning eye for Brother Qiyu and have discovered Wenge's thousand-mile horse; It is also a toast to the military leaders like Wenge and Xiaoou in Hebei. ”

"Good!" Shang Zhen knew that Liu Pei's words were to comfort Yang Xiaoou and to entrap Song Zhewu for himself. Only mention Hebei, not to mention the Jin Suijun, that is, we are all your Shang Zhen's subordinates. Shang Zhen raised his glass: "Okay, come, this glass of wine will be a toast to our two generals in Hebei." After saying that, he drank it all. Song Zhewu originally wanted to be modest, but when he saw that Shang Zhen had drunk the wine, he had to do it first.

Subsequently, Liu Pei led the conversation to Song Zhewu's training methods, and Song Zhewu did not hide it, telling the truth about 1510. After hearing this, Shang Zhen and the three of them felt smacked their tongues at the large amount of physical training of the security brigade, and they also felt helpless about Song Zhewu's military salary reward and a large amount of live-ammunition training. These all need money, and it's a lot of money, and looking at the ranks of the various factions in the country, there really isn't any one with such strength. The central government does have this financial resources, but the problem is that the central government uses the money in many places, and it will not be used in the army.

Song Zhewu knew that Shang Zhen was going to leave Hebei in August 29 and go to Shanxi to be the provincial chairman, and now because of Shang Zhen, the weapons and ammunition purchased by the security brigade from Tianjin, although Fu Zuoyi and Zhang Yinwu often make it difficult, but after all, the relationship between Shang Zhen must be considered, and every time Shang Zhen does not come forward, it is basically Liu Pei who can solve it by making a phone call to the chiefs of staff of the two armies. But once Shang Zhen left Hebei, it was not so easy to buy such a large number of weapons. Therefore, in the past six months, Song Zhewu has hoarded a large number of weapons and ammunition, and he wants to store a sufficient amount before Shang Zhen leaves. Now, in addition to military salaries, all the monthly profits of several factories are sent to Little Gates, and even some money has to be taken from the eldest brother Song Zhewen.

Song Zhewu told him about the recent purchase of weapons that are often difficult for people, and these Shang Zhen have already heard Liu Pei say it. He knew that it was just that Fu Zuoyi and Zhang Yinwu's division and regiment commanders never had the courage to move him to Shang Zhen's idea, even Fu and Zhang would not do this, and there must be a shadow of Shanxi behind them, because they didn't want their strength to become too strong. Therefore, as soon as Song Zhewu mentioned this matter, Shang Zhen instructed Liu Pei to set up a quartermaster office of the 32nd Army in Tianjin, and assist the Security Brigade in purchasing and transporting weapons and ammunition in the name of the 32nd Army. At the same time, Yang Xiaoou was asked to arrange for the troops stationed along the route to be responsible for protection.

Before the banquet ended, Shang Zhen said casually: "Wen Ge, your cavalry regiment has been making a lot of noise outside the mouth and in northern Hebei recently. Xu Yongchang from Suiyuan, two months after taking office, sent me two telegrams, saying that they would cross the border to suppress bandits without greeting them. Song Zhewu knew that in order to quickly improve the combat effectiveness of his newly recruited cavalry, Wei Guanghui looked for horse bandits everywhere to chase and suppress, and the horse bandits in northern Hebei were wiped out by him in a short time, so he targeted the horse bandits outside the mouth and Suiyuan, in Suiyuan, he was still careful, in Inner Mongolia, he did not have so many concerns, the farthest time, he actually chased a group of horse bandits to the so-called border line of Inner Mongolia. Shang Zhen didn't wait for Song Zhewu to reply, and then said: "You say hello to them, don't worry about the affairs in Suiyuan, Inner Mongolia, as long as it's not the so-called border line, you can let go of it." Not only the horse bandits, but also the princes and nobles who secretly hooked up with the old Maozi of Outer Mongolia also beat them. ”

Shang Zhen thought for a while and said: "Wen Ge, I think Bai Chongxi is more than lucky this time, and now there are many rumors, and there are even rumors that some brigade commanders want to kidnap Bai Chongxi. What do you think we should do? Imitation means that we also have to make some moves and take advantage of the opportunity. Song Zhewu had also thought about this matter before, and after weighing it, he still dispelled this idea.

"We can't get involved in this troubled water, there are only disadvantages and no benefits to participate, the first is that Tang Shengzhi will never come back without the support of Chairman Jiang, it is certain that now Chairman Jiang is going to start dealing with the Gui family, if we help Bai Chongxi, it will inevitably make Chairman Jiang dissatisfied. If we want to deal with Bai Chongxi, Shanxi will not be satisfied, although the Second and Third Group Army does not openly support the Fourth Group Army, but it is absolutely unwilling to see Chairman Chiang happily solve the Gui system. In this matter, what we do will do more harm than good, so my opinion is not to participate. Song Zhewu said calmly.

Shang Zhen thought for a while: "It's okay, we won't participate for the time being." In the future, every week the chief of staff will send you a telegram to inform you of the situation in Beiping, what do you think, and call back in time. ”

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