Hangking in June is a sea of flowers and firecrackers. The joy of the founding of the People's Republic of China is like a spring breeze blowing through the streets and alleys of the entire city, except for one place.

On the outskirts of Hanjing, by the Yangtze River, the new site of the Huaxia Military Academy.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Zhang Shusheng ordered the Huaxia Military Academy to be relocated to Hanjing, while a considerable number of other military academies remained in the southwest. Because it is the starting place of the New Deal, compared with other places, the construction of various colleges and universities is much earlier, and the major colleges and universities, including military academies, are already quite one step ahead of the country. If it weren't for the fact that he wanted to take this highest military academy of the Chinese with him and serve as the principal himself, Zhang Shusheng would even want to keep it in Dongchuan all the time.

For example, the Chinese Army University (formerly the Southwest Army Academy second only to the Huaxia Military Academy) and the First Reconnaissance Academy in Yibin, the Chinese Air Force University and the Armored Forces Command University in Chengdu, the China Communications College in Mianyang, the China Artillery Command College in Yucheng, the People's Army Logistics College, the China Engineering Academy and the Second Reconnaissance Academy in Kunming, the Southwest Second Army University in Dongchuan District, the Guangxi Army University in Guilin (the Guangxi Army Lecture Hall rebuilt during the Southwest Political Axe Period), and the China Naval University in Fangchenggang. Guiyang's Second Scout Academy and a large number of other military academies and academies do not include some military academies that train technical personnel.

In order to continue to maintain a certain degree of balance in the future, Zhang Shusheng specially instructed the political axes in various localities to do a good job in education, scientific research and production, and pay attention to the development of the regional economy, so as to continue to strengthen the leading edge.

There are many key colleges and universities, including Southwest University, Zhang Shusheng is very relieved about the education in the southwest, as long as the local political axe does not take the wrong road, it is to develop education, transportation, science and technology, and economy step by step, and can also embark on a road of rapid development.

"This is a terrible weather."

Building 5, Building 5, the third dormitory area of the Huaxia Military Academy, where the new cadets of the 30th phase of the Huaxia Military Academy live. A cadet in a military uniform and wearing a cadet badge was standing in front of the window, looking out at the pouring rain outside. Habitually, he reached out to his coat and purse to take out a cigarette, but only then did he remember that this was a military school, not a former army, and cigarettes were not allowed to be smoked.

This cadet is in his thirties, but he is still in the Huaxia Military Academy.

"I said Comrade Chen Cheng, you are really in a good mood." The person standing in front of the window turned back to a fellow scholar who was also sitting on the edge of the bed reading a book and shouted, with some banter in his words, and actually used the title of comrade.

Chen Cheng, by the way, the person who sat in front of the bed and buried his head in reading and taking notes was not the former Kuomintang lieutenant general Chen Cheng who commanded the battlefield in Tianjin and Beijing.

"Ember, the contents of this book are a hundred times stronger than those in our school before. You might as well take a look. Chen Cheng did not care at all about the word comrade in Tang Enbo's mouth, but thought that the shouting of the new political axe was correct, comrade, what is a comrade, is to have a common aspiration, to realize the common great ambition of Chinese rejuvenation. He hoped that others would call him so, that it was not the period of the party-state, and that it was difficult to make progress in his thinking like Tang Enbo.

Turning the pages carefully, it reads "On the Defense of the Trenches and the Breakthrough".

"What's there to see, there's a lot of it in the library, it's not necessarily rare." Tang Enbo had something on his mind, and he waved his hand and didn't care. "Aren't you worried that they'll make excuses for us not to pass the exam? If you look at the training in the past few days, it is simply not human's life, and the military training of new cadets is carried out like this, and how will they live in the future. ”

The thought of staying in the ghost place of Huaxia Military Academy for a year made Tang Enbo feel uncomfortable. He is not a rookie, let alone a new candidate who has never even been on the battlefield, he is a former party-state lieutenant general, and Zhang Shusheng dares to treat him like this, which is simply infuriating.

"It is precisely because of the abundance of this kind of military textbooks in the library that it proves that the people's army created by the New Deal Axe far surpasses the former party-state in terms of theoretical knowledge. Chen Cheng shook his head, "You, don't put yourself in a calm mind, you have passed the test, and the new political axe also has some arrangements for us Kuomintang veterans." ”

What Chen Cheng did not tell Tang Enbo was that someone had already talked to him before, and the new political axe treated some former Kuomintang generals who were the focus of the people's army on a different basis, and basically they could be appointed to new military posts after passing the examination after one year of study. A famous anti-Japanese general and a party-state lieutenant general like him will naturally be appeased, and as for Tang Enbo, the treatment will naturally be different.

"Hmph, there are hundreds of people in our party-state general school, and look at how he Zhang Shusheng dares, why don't he dare to let us go home and pick up the child."

"Xun Chen is back." Chen Cheng didn't care about Tang Enbo, but saw Zhang Zizhong push the door and walk in, carrying three pots of boiling water in his hands. The former commander of the first division is now doing it himself, fetching water like other 30th Huaxia Military Academy cadets.

"Lao Chen, I also borrowed a book. On infiltration operations behind enemy lines. Zhang Zizhong raised his hand, but took out a thin booklet from the student bag on his body.

"Oh? This seems to be a textbook for guerrilla warfare, why are you, the teacher, also interested in fighting guerrilla? Chen Cheng stroked his palms and smiled.

"Hehe, I heard that there is a 'guerrilla commander' Qu Zhongyi in the Northeast, who fought very well, piecemeal, and killed thousands of devils in more than a year." Zhang Zizhong is different from Chen Cheng and Tang Enbo in that military things are more accumulated in the army, and when it comes to theoretical knowledge, they are lacking. After living in a dormitory, he and Chen Cheng had a hot fight, and the two of them loved to drill the huge library of the Huaxia Military Academy in addition to the military training of the new cadets. There are not a few former Kuomintang generals who are as fond of the same as them, and of course, there are many people like Tang Enbo who sneer, are unwilling to learn, and occasionally complain about the new political axe.

Therefore, the fate of people is determined in the details of their actions and attitudes towards things.

"It's boring." Tang Enbo looked back, Chen Cheng and Zhang Zizhong actually studied the infiltration operation behind the enemy, and couldn't help but scoff, turned around to look at the rain outside the window, and no longer cared about the two.

"Knock Knock Knock ......"

From time to time, there was a knock on the door.

"Sir!"

Zhang Zizhong got up to open the door, but saw a military academy guard and his instructor standing at the door, and immediately stood together and saluted the new army's Qimei military salute, which had been changed from the flat-chested military salute in the Kuomintang. Chen Cheng and Tang Enbo also stood up when they heard this, stood up and saluted, this is the rule of the military academy.

The instructor and the guard both saluted, and then the instructor said to the guard, "This is the thirtieth batch of students, Comrade Zhang Zizhong." ”

"Comrade Zhang Zizhong, please come with me to the principal's office."

"Yes."

As soon as the three of them left, Tang Enbo became suspicious, "Cixiu, you said that this Zhang Zizhong wouldn't be shit luck, right?" The principal's office? Isn't it Zhang Shusheng's office at the military academy? Could it be that Zhang Shusheng came to the military academy? ”

"I don't know." Chen Cheng shook his head, but reminded him, "Enbo, you'd better be respectful to Chairman Zhang, although he himself may not care, but now it's a new deal, be careful of being sued, it's not good for you." ”

If it weren't for the sake of being a peer, Chen Cheng wouldn't have reminded him.

"Whoever likes to sue, I'll see what he can do to me." Tang Enbo said this, but his eyes looked carefully outside the door, and then he closed the door by the way.

Chen Cheng shook his head and didn't say much, but he secretly said in his heart, many people like Tang Enbo still believed that they were once lieutenant generals in the party-state, but they didn't know that now that the dynasty has changed, it is no longer the time when they can go all over the world. For example, the Huaxia Military Academy enrolls students once every six months, and the number of students is not large, and the two major links of 'access' and 'graduation' are strictly controlled, resulting in some students being unable to graduate every year, so they can only leave gloomily and return to their original units, or enlist in the army to become a non-commissioned officer without a title.

Becoming a king and defeating a coward, to put it nicely, these people were 'co-opted' by the New Deal Axe, and to put it mildly, they disarmed and surrendered. He did not think that the New Deal Axe was biased in its arrangement of [***] generals, and from his contacts with many middle- and high-ranking generals in the southwest, he found that there was indeed a great difference in the military quality of the two armies, and that the experience accumulated in a simple military career was no longer sufficient to cope with future wars.

He is not a pedantic and high-minded person, it is best to be a division commander and regiment commander, it is not a big deal if he can't, he does it with a patriotic heart, even if he is only a company commander and battalion commander, he still does not believe that the new political axe will block the promotion of this group of people who really have the heart to serve the country.

However, he seems to have foreseen that the final fate of many former Kuomintang generals can only be said to be miserable, because at that time, it was not the treachery of the New Deal, but their own disqualifications.

"Report."

"Come in."

Zhang Zizhong walked to the door of the principal's office, and after being inspected by the guards, he straightened his student uniform and stepped forward to knock on the door.

This is Zhang Shusheng's principal's office in the Huaxia Military Academy, since the establishment of the school in the southwest, there has been only one principal of the military academy from beginning to end, that is Zhang Shusheng, whether it is a stumbling start in the southwest or the establishment of New China, he has never thought of letting go of this position, there are some things, he can't let go, this is the principle.

Although he was not often there, everyone knew that this small single building was the principal's office, and according to many people, for a month or two, they could always see Chairman Zhang on the balcony looking at the Yangtze River in the distance, and they could also hear that a certain outstanding student was personally summoned by the principal.

Zhang Zizhong, who had never felt nervous in the face of the devil, suddenly knocked on the door, and the moment the answer came from the other side, he couldn't help but feel his blood surging all over his body, a very strange feeling, which he had never had when he saw a senior Kuomintang party-state official before.

Pushing the door in, a simple office, on the left is a huge globe, more than a meter in diameter, with a complete map of the world on it. On the right side there is a large bookshelf on which many military textbooks are placed, including works on land, sea, and air. In addition, there is a desk in the middle against the wall, and the national flag and the military flag are intertwined on the wall behind the seat, and a pair of words are written on both sides "Iron and Blood Dan Heart, Loyal to the Country"

Behind the desk sat Zhang Shusheng, who would take one day out every month to come to the military academy to meet the students. As the supreme leader of the Chinese People's Ming Boiled Republic, he was dressed with a sense of ability, looking about thirty years old and capable, wearing a black 'southwest suit', similar to the previous Zhongshan suit but different, more simple but solemn.

"Chairman! Zhang Zizhong, the thirtieth infantry command scientist, reports to you. ”

"Xun Chen is here, not bad, not bad."

Zhang Shusheng closed the document he was looking at in his hand and motioned for Zhang Zizhong to sit down, but the latter took a step back and did not sit down.

"Xinchen's hometown of Linqing, Shandong, I have been there, and the title of Little Tianjin is well deserved."

"The principal has won the award, and the small place can't get it on the table." Zhang Zizhong smiled shyly.

Zhang Shusheng saw that he still couldn't let go, so he smiled and said: "Xun Chen, don't be nervous, here, I am not the chairman, and you are not the former general." You're a cadet, I'm the principal, and it's that simple. ”

"Yes, Headmaster." Zhang Zizhong stood on the right path side by side, and finally let go of a little, he was originally an iron-clad tough guy, a little nervous but respectful of Zhang Shusheng, and now he is regarded as the principal, but he has less scruples.

"Are you used to the school's arrangement?"

"Report to the principal, Zizhong is very used to it, although the class has not officially started, but I feel that I have learned a lot." Zhang Zizhong said truthfully, this is also what he said in his heart.

"You are also a veteran of the Northwest Army, and I have a lot of trust in your command ability and military style. As for the unified arrangement of the New Deal axe for you, it is also out of consideration for the overall situation, and you don't need to have any burden. Zhang Shusheng said.

"Thank you, Principal, for your kindness."

The two chatted for a few more words, and it was almost five minutes from Zhang Zizhong entering the door to now, which was not a short time for the two of them. Seeing that the time was almost up, Zhang Shusheng picked up the document on the table and handed it to him, "Come, here's a document, you can take a look." ”

"Yes. Headmaster. ”

Zhang Zizhong stepped forward to take the document, opened it, and found that it was actually a combat plan drawn up by the Army General Staff. "Headmaster, the student is not currently in the military, this ......"

Zhang Shusheng waved his hand and motioned for him to look, and Zhang Zizhong opened it to see.

This battle plan is only a draft, and it is not long, but Zhang Zizhong was puzzled when he read it.

This is a plan for the 'KPA to move into the northwest'.

Just three days ago, the remaining Ma duo in the northwest formally reached a peace agreement with the New Deal Axe, and they were willing to unconditionally lay down their arms and accept the adaptation of the New Deal Axe. Ningxia, Gansu, and Qinghai officially announced their return to the embrace of the new political axe. And Ma Bufang, who ended up in the worst situation, was captured by Yang Hucheng in the Liberation War, and the ending was naturally not much better.

Following the complete and unconditional surrender of the three northwestern provinces, the eyes of the whole country were set on the last two places, Tibet and Xinjiang.

In terms of Xinjiang Province, although Sheng Shicai was a person who was far away from the emperor, from the beginning of the Liberation War to the founding of the People's Republic of China, he successively put forward a series of fantastical requirements to the Central Committee of the Kuomintang and the New Deal Axe, as the New Deal Axe became more and more powerful, the elite troops began to assemble in Shaanxi, and then after the three northwestern provinces announced the peaceful liberation, Sheng Shicai expressed his willingness to join the New Deal Axe unconditionally, and he was even willing to 'self-relieve himself from the military and political posts'.

The problem in Xinjiang Province has been solved for the time being, but the problem in Tibet Province has caused a lot of trouble. The 9th Panchen Lama is still living in Yushu, Qinghai, and the issue of returning to Tibet has been delayed again and again since the Kuomintang sent him back to Tibet in a high-profile manner, and it has been delayed for almost two years.

The issue of sovereignty brooks no outsiders, and neither the soon-to-be-established Baath Party nor the current Central Axe will allow Tibet to continue to vacillate between the British and the Central Government.

There is indeed a set, although the overall is not bad, but as a religious leader, he plays a political role, and from time to time he sways from side to side under the banner of 'fighting for Tibetan Province and considering Tibetan Province'. When the New Deal Axe was established, he also sent a special envoy to Hanjing to send a set of Zhenjiao Buddhist utensils that had been enlightened by the living Buddhas of the past dynasties, and gave God the meaning of blessing the New Deal Axe.

He also said that Tibet Province is a part of China and will never do anything rebellious.

However, Zhang Shusheng, a later person, knows very well, not to mention that the Kuomintang was weak and powerless in the past, and not to mention that the New Deal had just been established, and it was easy for people to be opportunistic.

Discordant things are as strong as those in later generations, let alone now.

Therefore, from the very beginning, he made up his mind that he would be armed in Tibet, and there would be no place for maneuver, and he would rather suffer for a while than leave a disaster for a hundred years and a thousand years.

"The meaning of the military department is to send a few generals with outstanding military talents to be stationed in the northwestern provinces, especially Tibet and Xinjiang provinces, and it is even more necessary to have people who can support the country." Zhang Shusheng said succinctly: Selecting people to enter Xinjiang Province and Tibet is the main purpose of his visit to the military academy this time.

"Self-loyalty and stupidity, I don't know what the arrangements of the Central Committee and the military department are. Although Zizhong does not have the talent to recommend himself, he has the ambition to serve the country, but he is willing to do it at any time if he needs it. Zhang Zizhong stood up and saluted.

Zhang Shusheng nodded, yes, Zhang Zizhong is really stronger than a considerable number of Kuomintang generals, neither humble nor arrogant, this is not something that ordinary people can do, and this person really cares about the country and the nation.

"Hehe, daring to invite war is your true character. Good, I read you right. Zhang Shusheng opened the drawer, took out a letter of appointment, and put it on the table, "The military department reported to me, saying that a general with high moral integrity and excellent military qualities was asked to go to Xinjiang Province, and I recommended you to them." After many examinations, you are officially ordered to be the commander of the Xinjiang Provincial Garrison, and Colonel Wang Zheng of the General Staff Department is the political commissar. ”

"This ...... Headmaster, is this appropriate? Zhang Zizhong couldn't help but think of other Kuomintang generals, who led the army into Xinjiang by themselves, and others were afraid that they would have opinions, and the new political axe unified the arrangement of Kuomintang generals to show fairness, and he was afraid that he would break the rules.

"Xun Chen, you think about it too much, you are on this errand, others are afraid that they can't escape, and there will be people gloating."

Zhang Shusheng shook his head and said, leading the army into Xinjiang, not to mention the northwesternmost location, the road is far away, and there are many sufferings. Dihua also has a prosperous era to support the army and self-respect, saying that it is the People's Army entering Xinjiang, it is better to say that it is to arm and disarm.

As for the later arrangement, those Kuomintang generals naturally can't see it, Zhang Shusheng wants a general who dares to act, but does not lack resourcefulness, at this point, the original historical General Wang did a good job, but judging from his qualifications, it is not enough to take on a big responsibility.

Of course, the most critical reason is that this batch of troops entering Xinjiang is composed of the original [***] troops, and if someone else is allowed to be the commander, it may cause the problem of poor command.

Originally, there were not too many elite troops of the New Deal Axe, and the Kuomintang troops that had been incorporated naturally had to be put to use, and it was the best choice to select some officers and men with a more tenacious style and considerable patriotic enthusiasm to form a unit to enter Xinjiang.

As the troops of the previous regime, it is a waste to completely disband, and suppression is not what Zhang Shusheng is willing to do, in line with the basic voluntary situation, they will be incorporated into the Xinjiang troops, and after completing the armed disarming of Sheng Shicai, they will be stationed in Tunjiang Province to suppress the northwest important areas of Shenzhou, which will create immortal achievements.

Therefore, don't look at Zhang Zizhong as a division commander before, but this time he will be awarded the rank of lieutenant general in advance and lead a group army of 120,000 into Xinjiang. This Xinjiang Provincial Corps was mainly composed of the former Kuomintang troops and a small number of former Southwest Army, and while consolidating the province, it was also responsible for ensuring the implementation of the policy of immigrating to the province. After the consolidation of Xinjiang Province and the basic completion of the resettlement, a small part of the XPCC will be transformed into a border garrison unit, which will take root in various parts of Xinjiang Province as a special military force while carrying out agricultural cultivation and production.

"Xun Chen, the issue of Xinjiang Province is far from being as simple as you think, Colonel Wang will assist you, as for military studies, you can bring a few boxes of textbooks into Xinjiang. Colonel Wang is also an outstanding graduate of the Huaxia Military Academy, and if you don't understand it, you can ask him for advice. ”

After Colonel Wang Zheng officially took over as the political commissar of the Corps, he will also be urgently awarded the rank of major general, which can be regarded as a special promotion.

Zhang Shusheng looked at Zhang Zizhong, and saw that he was just thinking for a moment, and then he roughly understood the problem in the middle, after all, there were some things briefly mentioned in the battle plan, which mentioned the main composition of the troops entering Xinjiang this time.

"Report to the principal, Zhang Zizhong takes the order!! I am willing to follow the example of Zuo Zongtang and carry the coffin into Xinjiang, and vow not to give up in the province of Xinjiang. ”

Zhang Zizhong stood up and saluted and replied loudly.

"Good, good! There is no need to carry the coffin into Xinjiang, I believe in your ability. He said that Xinjiang Province is Dading, and I will personally go to see you and the hundreds of thousands of soldiers. ”

Zhang Shusheng also said with extraordinary spirit.

"Yes! Chairman. ”

In this regard, the matter of entering Xinjiang has been decided, Zhang Zizhong will serve as the commander of the corps, Wang Zheng will serve as the political commissar, and the two will lead the 120,000 former Kuomintang troops who are determined to serve the country into Xinjiang.

After Zhang Zizhong left, Zhang Shusheng came to the window and looked at the Yangtze River in the distance, and couldn't help but think a lot, many Kuomintang troops still have combat effectiveness, and there are even more officers and soldiers who dare to sacrifice for the country and dedicate themselves to the nation.

(To be continued)