On March 13, Tainan and Kaohsiung were captured by the Chinese army one after another, a small number of Japanese troops were killed, most of them surrendered, and Anton Zhenmei, who retreated to Yilan, led the remnants to face the pressure of the Chinese army, and had to retreat to Taitung again. Anton Sadami wanted to leave the wreckage and escape from the Bay Island in a small boat, but the waters around the Bay Island were full of Chinese naval ships, and at this time the entire Bay Island had been blocked, and even fishing boats were not allowed to go to sea, so Anton Sadami's escape plan had to be shelved.

On March 16, the Chinese army surrounded Taitung, and the desperate Anton Sadami led the remnants to surrender, and Wandao returned to the embrace of the motherland after being ruled by the Japanese for 20 years.

Doge's Palace.

The adjutant knocked on the door of Cai Guodong's office, and after hearing the sound of "please come in", he pushed the door and walked in to salute Cai Guodong, who was working: "General, the president is calling!" ”

"Oh, what does it say?" Cai Guodong put down the text in his hand and asked.

The adjutant picked up the paper clip, opened it and said: "The president said in the telegram that from now on, the Bay Island will implement military control for three months, and a military control committee will be established, and after the establishment of the military control committee, it is necessary to do its best to maintain the stability of the Bay Island market and social stability, appease the hearts of the people of the Bay Island, and severely crack down on lawless elements who disrupt public order, and crack down on illegal traders who wantonly hoard materials and raise prices. During this period, the police officers who have no bad deeds will be screened out from the original police system, and these people will be used as the backbone to recruit new police officers from all walks of life on the Bay Island, and train these people. Furthermore. The President also instructed that from now on, the General could begin preparations for the seizure of the Ryukyu Islands."

After reading it, the adjutant took a few steps forward and handed over the text jiàn clip. Cai Guodong took the text clip and looked at the message, signed his name under the message with a pen, and returned the text clip to the adjutant. "Call Zeng Chuang and ask him to come to me in three days, and send a telegram to Lan Tianwei, commander of the 14th Army, Bai Wenwei, commander of the 40th Division, Zhang Shaozeng, commander of the 41st Division, and Liu Cunhou, commander of the 42nd Division, and ask them to leave for the Taipei Command for a meeting immediately."

"Okay, General!"

After the adjutant left, Cai Guodong pinched his eyebrows, the supervisors at all levels of the 14th Army are some thorns, if someone else is the commander, these people may not completely obey the order. However, Cai Guodong is different, he is Xiao Zhenlei's descendant, and his qualifications are high enough, these people have a very high position in the army during the Qing Dynasty, especially Zhang Shaozeng, who also served as the commander of the twentieth town of the New Army in the late Qing Dynasty, Lan Tianwei served as the second mixed association, and Liu Cunhou mixed under Cai Yi and served as the chief of staff of Cai Yi's first department. Bai Wenwei was even more active in the Qing army, none of them were fuel-efficient lamps, if it weren't for Cai Guodong, ordinary people would not be able to suppress these people when they were the commander-in-chief.

March 18th. Lan Tianwei, Bai Wenwei, Zhang Shaozeng, Liu Cunhou and others arrived in Keelung by warship, and then rushed to the Taipei Governor's Mansion in the afternoon of the same day, and stayed in the guest house arranged by the Governor's Palace. Before dinner, I received a notice to rush to the governor's palace at eight o'clock in the evening to convene a military meeting.

These people are all from military backgrounds. During the year and a half of Yuan Shikai's reign, Bai Wenwei also drove out the governor of Anhui appointed by Yuan Shikai. He sat on the throne of the governor of Anhui, but he didn't sit for long, the butt was not hot, the battle of the Second Revolutionary Northern Expedition began, after the establishment of the new government, he was transferred to the military circles, no longer acting civil, the throne of the governor was not only gone, he also fell from the position of the governor to the division commander, in the past three years, others have been promoted and rich, but he is still standing still. The reason for this is not only that he is a member of the Kuomintang, but also because he is too active.

After the Xinhai Revolution, he and Wu Luzhen and others raised troops against the Qing Dynasty, Wu Luzhen was assassinated by Yuan Shikai, and he was transferred to the minister of Xuanfu of the Yangtze River, running for the peace between the north and the south. After Yuan Shikai was defeated, Zhang Shaozeng and a group of others chose to take refuge, so he was transferred to the Senior Command Office of the Military Academy for further study for one year, and after graduation, he was appointed as the commander of the 41st Division.

Liu Cunhou participated in the aid of the Sichuan-Yunnan Army, participated in the Baolu Movement, participated in the independence of Sichuan Province, and participated in the Second Revolutionary Northern Expedition, and his qualifications were no worse than Bai Wenwei and others, and he was already a division commander during the Second Revolutionary Northern Expedition.

At eight o'clock in the evening, the four of them rushed to the Governor's Palace, Lan Tianwei, as the commander of the 14th Army, was invited to Cai Guodong's office first, and the other three were taken to the conference room by Cai Guodong's adjutant. In addition to the four of them, there are also Zhang Zuolin, commander of the 37th Division of the 13th Army, and others.

Zhang Zuolin and Lan Tianwei, Zhang Shaozeng and several other people have a deep contradiction, this contradiction existed in the late Qing Dynasty in the last few years, when Lan Tianwei was in the second mixed co-ordination, he and Zhang Shao were ready to respond to each other inside and outside the Guan, but at that time Zhang Zuolin took the lead as the commander of the Fengtian Patrol Battalion, so that Lan Tianwei was ready to revolt in support of the Wuchang Uprising The action failed, and Lan Tianwei himself had to flee, and this also made Zhang Shao's actions in the Guanzhong difficult to speak, and had to give up, since then there has been a contradiction between Lan Tianwei, Zhang Shaozeng and Zhang Zuolin. In the history of another time and space, Zhang Shaozeng was assassinated and killed by Zhang Zuolin.

Therefore, after meeting in the conference room, these people all looked at each other unpleasantly, they hummed and did not speak, and they all kept smoking like a big chimney, and the whole conference room was full of smoke and miasma, and the air was very bad.

Soon, Cai Guodong arrived, the rules in the army were strict, and the upper and lower hierarchies were clear, and before the others arrived at the door, the soldiers standing guard at the door of the conference room shouted loudly: "General Cai has arrived-all stand up!" ”

Hearing the guards singing, the officers in the conference room immediately extinguished their cigarette butts and stood upright, Cai Guodong walked in front, He Shuihan, commander of the 13th Army, and Lan Tianwei, commander of the 14th Army, followed behind, followed by several senior staff officers.

As soon as the person walked to the door, Cai Guodong stopped with a frown and said, "Hey, what's the matter, this conference room has become a big smoke house?" Are you burning a kiln or are you burning charcoal? ”

Listening to his tone, everyone knew that it was not good, this was an obvious rebuke, although Cai Guodong was not their direct superior, but the appointment and dismissal, promotion and rank promotion of division commander-level generals all need to go through the Supreme Military Council, and Cai Guodong is just one of the main members of the Supreme Military Council, he doesn't need to speak, just a look can make the future of anyone here end from now on, a division commander, or even a military commander, in front of the main members of the Supreme Military Council, the difference in rank is too far.

Lan Tianwei, who was standing behind Cai Guodong, also saw a lot of smoke in the conference room, smoking here, and smoking, really thought it was in his own division headquarters? It's just joking about his future, he stood behind Cai Guodong and said sharply: "What's the matter? What is this place? Who made you smoke? Bastard, don't look at what kind of place this is, won't you go out to smoke if you want to smoke? You've made this place a miasma, how is this going to be? Bai Wenwei, Zhang Shaozeng, Liu Cunhou, after this meeting, go back to write to me for inspection, you must write 3,000 words, and rewrite it if you don't write it profoundly, until I am satisfied, do you understand? ”

Just now, he only cared about his fighting spirit, but he didn't realize that he and the others were too presumptuous here, Bai Wenwei and the others were so frightened that they hurriedly agreed. They know that now is not the same as before, in the past, the military power in hand could not be a bird in the central government, but now try it? If you dare to disobey the military orders of your superiors and confront the central government, first of all, the officers below will turn against you, and a division commander is not the division commander alone, the deputy division commander, the chief of staff, and the political commissar have divided a lot of the division commander's powers, and the division commander only has absolute operational command over the enemy in wartime, but if the division commander wants to command the troops against the higher authorities and the central government, it can only kill himself.

This is not their division headquarters, but the general headquarters, with Cai Guodong's rank and position, commanding the two armies to fight is actually killing chickens with a knife, for some people, this is tantamount to a direct surrender.

He Shuihan said to Cai Guodong: "Commander-in-chief, do you want to change the conference room?" ”

Cai Guodong waved his hand and said, "No, just open it here, let's go in!" ”

Everyone rushed in and looked for their own positions, Cai Guodong sat on the main seat and saw everyone sitting in their seats before he spoke: "Is it okay to smoke?" Not good because it's harmful to the body! ”

When the generals saw Cai Guodong mention the topic of smoking again, they knew that they had suffered, and this time they were afraid that it would be difficult to pass. Sure enough, I heard Cai Guodong continue: "Although smoking is harmful to the body, it can relieve people's feelings and help people think, this is its benefit, many people smoke, and there are no longer a few people who smoke in the army, which is why the logistics department will distribute cigarettes to officers and soldiers, I also smoke, but I will not be regardless of the occasion, I at least know that if I am going to a meeting convened by the president, I will definitely not smoke in the presidential conference room!" You people have all spent time in regular military academies, and later studied in them, is it useless at all? After this military operation, you all give me another training, when I can be strict with myself, when I can distinguish the occasion and come back, and if I am not satisfied with the battle against the Ryukyu Islands this time, you will all go home and farm! ”

"There is no need to hold this military meeting, directly assign tasks, the 13th Army enters a state of rest, responsible for the defense and security of Bay Island, if something goes wrong, He Shuihan, I am the only one who asks! The 14th Army was responsible for the capture of the Ryukyu Islands, of which the 40th Division was responsible for taking the Sakishima Islands, the 42nd Division was responsible for taking Miyama Island (Okinawa), and the 41st Division was responsible for taking the Amami Islands, Osumi Islands, and Tokara Islands! (To be continued......)