The huge military camp in the northwest of Xundian City, which is the secret station of the Second Brigade of the Militia Regiment, since entering the city overnight, all the food, vegetables and other supplies obtained from the county town are still purchased according to the scale of the previous garrison, and they are also those old purchasers and escort soldiers. It is only in the middle of the night that additional secret resupply is carried out.

Everyone felt the tense atmosphere before the war, and although no one knew when the battle would start, the officers and men of the Second Brigade were still looking forward to it. About 20 percent of the officers and men of the Second Brigade have a career as long as seven or eight years as professional soldiers, and the entire commanders and fighters system, after several orderly adjustments in the past few years, has achieved that all commanders and fighters at and above the company and platoon level are four-year qualified graduates of the Huaxia Military Academy. Even brigade commander Chen Jun and instructor Ye Yulong were transferred to the Huaxia Military Academy in rotation, and it took more than three years to complete the infantry command course of the Huaxia Military Academy. (There is no half-year field training period.) As soon as the day dawned, the Second Brigade, which had canceled the slogan and ran early, was still training within the high walls, and in addition to repeating some tactical movements, it was more about physical training. The experience of the militia is that during the war, these professional soldiers often have very good military qualities, and what they need to do is not to sharpen their guns in battle, but to maintain their best physical fitness until the moment they go to the battlefield.

Because, the second brigade will not be a defensive force, but an assault force with an iron fist.

"Cui Ziqiang!!"

"Yes!"

Cui Ziqiang, the platoon commander of the first battalion, one company, and one platoon who was organizing physical training in the platoon, heard the voice and knew that it was the company commander with a loud voice who was coming, so he turned around neatly and saluted with his legs together.

However, the company commander actually carried two recruits with marching bags on their backs, and judging from the epaulettes on their uniforms, they were actually two students of the Huaxia Military Academy.

Qiao Pusheng, the commander of the first company, first glanced at the soldiers who were doing push-ups on the spot, and found that everyone was not confused because of his arrival, and nodded with satisfaction, thinking that if someone messed up, he would be embarrassed in front of these two top students of the military academy.

"Dai Anlan, Wang Gongliang!" Qiao Person turned around and shouted.

"Here! Dai Anlan, the eighth infantry command scientist of the Huaxia Military Academy! ”

"Here! Wang Gongliang, the eighth infantry command scientist of the Huaxia Military Academy! ”

The two cadets put their legs together, and saluted a standard military salute very neatly, at least in terms of military salute, it was no worse than Cui Ziqiang. Cui Ziqiang said secretly, obediently, I didn't expect to usher in two new trainees in the front line before the war this time. Counting the time again, the eighth installment? Isn't it just a student who only entered the school in 1923? Why did you enlist in the army in 1924 for a field training course?

If you look at the appearance of these two military cadets alone, their dark skin looks like they usually train very hard. Although the calluses on the fingers that are close together are not as thick as the veterans in the platoon, as a student of the eighth batch, it is already very rare.

"Cui Ziqiang, platoon commander of the first platoon of the first battalion of the first battalion of the first regiment of the second brigade, welcome the two trainees!"

Hearing that Cui Ziqiang reported his position without cutting corners, Qiao Pusheng nodded, although Cui Ziqiang's background is not as good as that of other company platoon commanders, but he is studious, although he barely passed the literary examination when he graduated from the Huaxia Military Academy, but he got all the honors in the actual combat assessment. In addition to advanced military thinking, military academies have taught these grassroots commanders a meticulous military style.

"Cui Ziqiang, I'll hand over these two student soldiers to you. You're going to give me a good training for them! Chopson instructed that the two second-year students entering the army in the line of fire actually meant the above. This time, a group of second- and third-year trainees who have not yet reached the time of field training have been specially selected to enter various units, although others do not know, but Chompson knows something. The main force went out to Xundian, and the war was already imminent, and the superiors seemed to want to take advantage of this rare opportunity to test and train a group of outstanding students in actual combat. This can be seen from the fact that most of the people sent are infantry command scientists and artillery scientists.

"Yes, resolutely complete the task!" Cui Ziqiang saluted and took over the task.

After Qiao Pusheng left, Cui Ziqiang talked to the two of them alone, "Although the two of you are cadet recruits, I will not take extra care of you, and of course I will not have any requirements." I have only one command: everything obeys orders!! ”

"Yes!!"

"Very well, now drop your packages right now and do 200 push-ups."

After Cui Ziqiang finished speaking, he went to stare at the three classes under his command without looking back, and these two recruits were only qualified to talk to themselves after they had done 200 push-ups. What he didn't see was that instead of being half dissatisfied, Dai Anlan and Wang Gongliang glanced at each other, revealing some joy, it seemed that they came to the right place this time, and they were not put in the reserve force.

———————— "It's bustling here! ”

In Xundian City, upstairs in a teahouse, two tea customers sitting on the street are drinking tea while looking at the bustling street below.

"yes."

These two people who spoke in Chinese were not outsiders, they were Okamura Ninji and Miyai Nagao, who entered the county seat of Xundian in disguise.

Okamura Ninji was sweeping the streets of the county with a pair of eagle eyes, occasionally stopping at the goods sold by the vendors, occasionally on the clothes of passers-by, and occasionally on the tinkling bicycles that drove by. The bustling street scene reflects a different essence in his eyes.

The two of them sit in a relatively remote position, and it is okay to speak normally, and others can't hear it.

"This county is more prosperous than we imagined!" Miyai Nagao saw Okamura Ninji's gaze sweeping around the street, and deliberately thought for a moment, knowing that he couldn't answer hastily, so he took the opportunity to say his true feelings.

"It's almost time to catch up with some of the smaller cities near Tokyo. In my imagination, Xundian should be the size of a town. Okamura Ninji said with a somewhat solemn face, there are many more things he didn't say, such as the small goods on the counter of the store, Miyai may not know it, but he has seen it in the United States. It was a new type of lighter, a new type of pass-through flashlight, and a new type of chemical product. And the clothing of pedestrians, a considerable part of them is different from the bulky cotton and linen clothes worn by ordinary Chinese he is used to, but a somewhat familiar fabric, which seems to have been seen in China. There are also those bicycles with unique shapes, which are much stronger than those bulky goods on the streets of Tokyo in China.

He never imagined that a small county town in Dongchuan District would have these industrial products that were rare to even see in the Great Empire. It is no wonder that the intelligence sent back by the agents is highly respectful of the scientific and technological development and industrial system of Dongchuan District.

For this southwest plan, Okamura Ninji was originally more biased towards the interests of military and strategic directions, but now, he has more expectations for the industrial system of Dongchuan District, and maybe he can take advantage of the situation to obtain a number of advanced production technology and production equipment. From the point of view of intelligence, he was very curious about Zhang Shusheng, who bought technology and equipment from abroad in a big way, but he did not expect that in this backward and ignorant country, someone would be able to realize the great power of science and technology and industry.

It's a pity that he will become an ant who was crushed to death by the chariot of the Great Empire under the southwest plan of the Great Empire. In his plan, Zhang Shusheng is not the focus, just an excuse to win over Tang Jiyao.

"Let's go, let's go for a walk somewhere else." Regarding Miyai's caution, Okamura Ninji was much more casual.

The two of them walked out of the teahouse, walked around at will, and when they came to an alley, they saw several large carriages in the distance hurrying by under the escort of several soldiers. It is filled with cabbage. Passers-by got out of the way, and Okamura Ningji and the others also let Okamura Ningji move his heart, approached an old man, put on the most harmless smile and asked: "Old man, why are there so many dishes today, I'm afraid it will be eaten by thousands of people." ”

"Not much, not much, it's very tiring to be a soldier, of course the food should be sufficient, there used to be so many dishes."

"Huh? Was it so much before? ”

"yes. The big guys are counting on more troops, and if they transport more vegetables, there will definitely be more troops. Don't let the South enter the city again. The old man said casually, but he didn't notice that Okamura Ninji left with a pensive face.

—————————— "Mr. Okamura is here, and Tang is far away." ”

In the backyard of Tang Jiyao's mansion, two people dressed in the uniforms of the Yunnan Military Academy were sitting opposite Tang Jiyao, drinking fragrant tea.

"Whereever, the Overseers are busy with military affairs, and they are bothering you." Okamura Ninji chuckled as he drank tea. "I wonder how the Overseer's forces are reorganized?"

Tang Jiyao secretly scolded in his heart, you said that your military instructors have been sent to the company-level troops below Lao Tzu, and the reorganization plan is still set by you, will you not know the specific situation?

"At present, the completed reorganization plan is that there are three divisions of the Yunnan Army and one and a half divisions of the Guizhou Army.

Okamura Ningji put down the teacup, stared at Tang Jiyao, and said word by word: "To be exact, it's to send the weapons and equipment down." ”

"Mr. Okamura clearly saw that although there were nearly 100,000 sons in the two divisions of the Dian Army and the Guizhou Army, it took a long time to select soldiers. However, with the help of the outstanding soldiers of the Great Empire, the two divisions of the Dian Army and half of the Guizhou Army have changed dramatically, and they can be called the elite of the country. Tang Jiyao didn't brag about this, in his opinion, half of the original troops were soldiers, and half were afraid of bandits. According to his experience in studying abroad in the early years, although these two divisions did not meet the standards of the division, they were definitely not comparable to the domestic warlords. In three months, the Hades-like instructors, after killing a group of soldiers, did train a little level.

Okamura Ninji remained silent and said lightly: "I came this time and brought a verbal notice from the military department. If your unit is not able to complete the basic personnel reintegration of the remaining divisions within the next month. Then the equipment of several divisions in the future will not be delivered to you. You know, the Empire has gone to great lengths to support this massive batch of weapons. ”

Indeed, in order to support this batch of weapons, it can be said that the equipment of several divisions that I had verbally promised had so far only been urgently transported to two divisions of light equipment through various channels. Although Tang Jiyao had to spend his own money to buy and exchange things, it was not easy to get enough of these weapons. With the national strength of the country, it took a period of time to gather enough light and heavy weapons and equipment for these two divisions, and the military headquarters also emptied the old domestic inventory and replaced the equipment of a second-class division and regiment.

Tang Jiyao said secretly, saying that he was afraid that he wanted to cheat.

However, he also knew that the southwest was not like the great northwest, and it did take a lot of thought to say that his weapons could be smuggled into Yunnan and Guizhou through the Yangtze River and other water and land transportation. In his opinion, now that he has two divisions of all-round equipment, he can eat Zhang Shusheng.

"Mr. Okamura can rest assured that although our equipment is inferior, the reorganized weapons can still be equipped with two or three second-class elite divisions. As long as there are two mechanics and three ordinary divisions, I promise to eat the whole southwest to death. ”

Tang Jiyao was full of pride, for fear that he would question his ability and thus affect the overall situation, so he had to make concessions, "As for the rest of the equipment, Okamura-kun can report it to your minister, and he can wait until he occupies Guangxi, and then transport it from the sea." ”

"Yo Si! Tang Overseer is worthy of being the spokesman of the southwest chosen by the Great Empire. ”

Okamura Ningji secretly said in his heart, it has already been decided that you, an old fox, will not dare to disobey the Great Empire. With the ability of the empire, it is indeed impossible to gather enough equipment for seven divisions in a short time, let alone transport it to Yunnan. This old fox also knew something at first, otherwise he would not have asked the military headquarters to bring some equipment first. In order to ensure the success of the plan, Okamura Ninji also strongly advocated the collection of old weapons from two divisions and sent them in every possible way.

As for guns and artillery, after the Great Empire establishes an ordnance factory in Fangchenggang, it will naturally be possible to use your iron ore in Guangxi to make those weapons.

As the maker and executor of the plan, Okamura Ninji asked himself that he would not be as stingy as the Kwantung Army, as long as Tang Jiyao was obedient, he would definitely give the equipment of the seven divisions. Instead of making the same mistake again, the southwest will be fostered into a weak and disobedient Zhang Zuolin.

———————— "District Chief, why did you choose the timing of this operation around March next year?" Jiang Baili was very strange, he obviously discovered Tang Jiyao's traitorous incident in advance, but he did not expose it in advance, but waited for himself to arm Tang Jiyao, and so far he had armed two divisions of the armed forces.

Zhang Shusheng rarely smiled gloomily, "Tang Jiyao's betrayal of the country is already an ironclad fact, and the intelligence personnel have found out that I can help him arm two divisions of weapons at most, and it is difficult to become a big climate." Others beat snakes and beat them seven inches, but I want to break the snake's head with a hammer. ”

"I see!! In this way, the current domestic situation has changed abruptly, and the big man in the south has been repeatedly rumored to be critically ill, maybe this will be an opportunity for us. With Jiang Baili's strategic vision and the domestic situation, Zhang Shusheng's considerations came to mind in an instant.

Yes, it is easy to immediately order the militia to rush out of Xundian and attack Kunming, but in this way, it is difficult to maximize the benefits. Tang Jiyao's betrayal of the country is an ironclad fact, but the militia also needs him as a stepping stone.

After Jiang Baili left, Zhang Shusheng asked Mao Yun to call the person in charge of the Military Command Department first, "You will distribute this training course on withdrawing part of the reserve forces to participate in earthquake prevention and disaster reduction in the form of a military order." ”

"Yes!!"

Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, it is late February 1925.

(To be continued)