Just after eight o'clock, the West Camp in Hangzhou was already a display of military flags and drums.

On both sides of the road from the south camp gate to the central review stand, colorful flags are planted, flowers are placed around the review stand sitting on the west and east sides, people are crowded on both sides of the review stand, hundreds of government officials warmly greet the more than 3,000 guests from all walks of life who have arrived one after another, and hundreds of provincial government guard officers and soldiers are sweating and setting up benches.

On the review stand decorated with the national flag, the party flag, and the green pine, the five-story stepped viewing seats built by the brothers of the engineer company of Wu Ming's teaching team were covered with white tablecloths, and more than a dozen staff members of the Zhejiang Provincial Newspaper and government propaganda officials were still inspecting the audio equipment, and exquisite porcelain cups were placed on the table in front of each seat.

In front of the review stand, all Chinese and foreign reporters dressed in dresses and cheongsams were discussing the framing angles of photography in groups, looking forward to what new feelings the upcoming army ceremony would bring to everyone.

The large playground with a circumference of more than 500 meters was still empty, and both the 1,200 officers and men of the direct teaching regiment and the more than 400 officers and men of Wu Ming's teaching team were all ready at this moment, and they gathered in front of their respective barracks to listen to the company and platoon commanders read out the precautions aloud.

Wu Ming and Ma Zhizhai led a group of staff officers to inspect the drill facilities at the very end, while several company commanders and staff officers of Wu Ming's teaching team were inspecting barbed wire obstacles, sandbag fortifications and high walls neatly stacked on the left and right sides, and preset explosion points and connecting wires next to other obstacles.

In the face of Wu Ming's series of settings, Ma Zhizhai, who had checked it twice, was still nervous, although he had seen Wu Ming's bold live-fire training method in Quzhou many times, but this is Hangzhou, and it is under the noses of Lu Diping, Zhu Jiahua, Gu Jianzhong, and many Chinese and foreign guests.

What's more, this drill method was not informed to Shangfeng, Liu Rulin, in line with his trust in Wu Ming as always, agreed with a big grin, and he didn't know how much trouble Wu Ming would make.

"Don't worry, when your teaching regiment passes through these obstacles, it will not be threatened by a rain of machine gun bullets and paper tube explosion packets, and it will only be activated when my two companies pass the last time, all officers and soldiers wear the same clothes and use the same weapons and equipment, where can outsiders tell who is my soldier and who is yours?"

"Isn't it all due to your teaching team? This is to help you establish your military prestige! If it weren't for the hard work of you and Brother Liu, the younger brother would be guilty of making wedding clothes for others? Wu Ming explained in a low voice that for today's moment, he really had good intentions.

Ma Zhizhai breathed a sigh of relief, patted Wu Ming's shoulder gratefully, glanced at the direction of the crowded review stand, and urged Wu Ming to rush back to the barracks together.

At 9 o'clock in the morning, the assembled military trumpets sounded, and except for the officers and men of the two engineer companies and more than 100 wounded and sick brothers, all the officers and men participating in the drill quickly left the barracks and marched toward the large playground in a neat formation with the company as a unit.

The first battalion of the directly subordinate teaching regiment led by Liu Rulin and Ma Zhizhai just appeared on the edge of the playground and immediately won the applause of the audience!

The officers and men were rigorous in appearance, marched in unison, wore steel helmets and held steel guns, and their majestic and heroic posture made everyone feel the distinctive spiritual outlook of this army, giving people a strong impression of being well-trained and strictly disciplined.

In the center of the front row of the rostrum, Provincial Chairman Lu Diping had a smile on his face, and after listening to the curious inquiry of the special commissioner Zhu Jiahua on the left, he turned his head and laughed in a low voice:

"It is true that only three months of training have been carried out, and most of them are recruits who joined the army three months ago, but the soldiers have been strictly selected, and the training is presided over by Ma Zhizhai, the new training chief of the Security Department, and the assistant in training is the highly praised Wu Ming Teaching Team of the West Zhejiang Security Command some time ago, Ha Luha!"

"Is that him? I still remember the last time General Ge Jingen took the two pamphlets compiled by Wu Ming back to Nanjing, which caused a lot of controversy in the military circles, and I heard that several German advisers from the Central Military Academy read the translated pamphlets and gave a good evaluation, which shows that this Wu Ming is indeed a talent! Zhu Jiahua said with a smile.

Lu Diping was slightly stunned, and soon continued to play Ha Luha: "We all know that Wu Ming is a rare talent, but it's a pity that we can't keep it!" The situation in western Zhejiang must be clear to Brother Liu, last month the leader of the communist army Fang Zhimin suddenly appeared, led more than 2,000 people to attack the county seat of Kaihua in western Zhejiang, the county chemical plant that produces civilian ** was looted, the sulfuric acid plant and two sulfur mines were burned, and nearly 100 Kaihua County security officers and soldiers were killed! ”

"Fortunately, Fang Youchun, the commander of the security in western Zhejiang, responded in a timely manner and did not cause major losses. In the past month or so, Fang Youchun has asked three times to transfer Wu Ming's teaching team back to deal with the crisis, if it weren't for the training of our direct teaching team at a critical moment, I would be embarrassed to keep them...... I have to admit that people hate less when they use it! ”

Zhu Jiahua naturally knew what Lu Diping's so-called "person" meant, nodded slightly, heard the applause and cheers stopped, raised his eyes, and was immediately attracted by the officers and soldiers of the teaching regiment who were neatly lined up in front of him and heroic posture.

Liu Rulin, the acting head of the teaching group, and Ma Zhizhai, the deputy head of the regiment, ran to the front of the review stand, stood up and reported, and Lu Diping, the provincial chairman in a lieutenant general dress, stood up in warm applause, walked to the front of the review stand unhurriedly, and returned a military salute to the microphone and downward: "Let's start." ”

Liu Rulin and Ma Zhizhai saluted solemnly again, turned around and ran back to the front of the team and ordered loudly, and Ma Zhizhai also quietly glanced at Wu Ming, who led two companies in front of the team on the left.

Fan Chunlin, commander of the first battalion of the teaching regiment, led the officers and men of four companies to start running circles around the field, and Wu Ming's two companies followed, and the six formations composed of nearly 1,000 officers and men who were fully armed were in unison, and the steady and heavy footsteps gathered together, which looked extremely majestic in the sound of the order, and every step point was like a hammer striking the heart of every spectator, and soon ushered in warm applause and cheers from the audience.

Celebrities from all walks of life who were deeply affected sighed excitedly: I never thought that our army could be so neat and powerful, and today it is finally an eye-opener!

The subsequent debriefing drill made people excited.

Groups of officers and men crossed one difficult obstacle after another in an orderly manner, and the accompanying exclamations and cheers were endless, and dozens of civil and military officials on the review stand applauded one after another with binoculars, and a steady civilian official like Zhu Jiahua could not help but applaud loudly.

Provincial Chairman Lu Diping and Acting Security Division Director Cheng Chengdong and others were so happy that their mouths were crooked, leaving aside who would control this new type of army, this is a major event that has been the longest face in Zhejiang's military and political circles since the Songhu War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and it is also the greatest political achievement that greatly inspires the morale of the army and the people and establishes the prestige of the government.

The officers and men of the four companies of the teaching regiment successfully crossed all obstacles, the dense sound of machine guns and continuous strong explosions rang out loudly, the 400-meter training track was full of billowing smoke, and the two companies led by Wu Ming roared in unison and set off quickly amid the chaotic exclamations of the audience.

As soon as the platoon running at the front stepped onto the single-plank bridge, the gunpowder packets buried under the ground on both sides exploded with a "boom," and the earth in the sky flew in all directions over the billowing and steaming gunpowder smoke, and the heroic officers and men flew away in the mud and gunpowder smoke as if they were real battlefields.

An even more heart-wrenching scene appeared.

The officers and men who passed through the thick smoke successively got under the barbed wire barrier, and the two light and heavy machine guns on the side suddenly launched intensive strafing at the barbed wire, and the whistling rain of bullets stuck to the barbed wire and shot into the sandbag wall in front of them, provoking bursts of green smoke and dense hitting sounds, and occasionally a few bullets hit the undulating barbed wire, splashing sparks.

More than 300 officers and men of the drill were undaunted, smoothly passed through the barbed wire in the roaring rain of bullets, and with incredible courage and speed, they leaped up one by one amid the fierce gunfire and explosions, and unceasingly launched an attack on the obstacle that frequently exploded.

In the blink of an eye, the fierce exercise came to a successful conclusion, and not a single officer or soldier was left on the messy training ground; after the suffocating silence, applause and cheers shook the sky, and countless fiery and respectful eyes were all concentrated on all the officers and men who had completed the exercise.

Lu Diping looked at Zhu Jiahua and Gu Jianzhong, who were quietly wiping their sweat left and right, quite complacently, and laughed out loud: "Not bad! Not bad! Although it is a bit opportunistic, the courage and audacity of the officers and men are gratifying, very good, and worthy of praise! ”

"It's so crazy that you dare to hit the back with a machine gun, it's just a dozen centimeters away!"

"Yes! These kids from the teaching group went crazy and really engaged in an explosion drill! ”

"My ears are still buzzing, and I don't know if I know how to give me a notice."

"This group of Qiu Ba, Niang Xipi is ruthless enough......"

No matter what others think, and no matter what thoughts or intentions Liu Rulin and Ma Zhizhai's officers and men of the teaching regiment and chief instructor Wu Ming have, whether it is opportunistic or sensational, the cheers and unsparing applause from the audience are the best evaluation of this unprecedented reporting exercise.

It can be said that this was a unique and extremely crazy performance, which not only caused a strong sensation, but also made all the officials of Lu Diping deeply satisfied, and the positive significance brought by this was enough to make the entire military and political circles in Zhejiang proud and satisfied.

At this moment, the audience shouted and screamed one after another, and the nearly 100 Chinese and foreign reporters in the audience were running around excitedly, which is the best proof that Zhejiang Province's pioneering achievements in military training and military reform will soon spread throughout the country and even overseas.

Representatives from all walks of life generally believed that there was such a strong army to defend Zhejiang, and all the previous donations were worth it, and they were full of expectations for the military reform of the provincial government and the military and political circles.

After the ceremony, Wu Ming, who was unwilling to take the lead in the crowd, took the lead in leaving the chaotic playground, and the officers and men of the two companies of the teaching team who participated in the drill also quickly returned to their barracks, leaving the scenery to Liu Rulin, Ma Zhizhai, and all the officers and men of the teaching regiment directly under them, who were full of confidence.

Interestingly, in the subsequent interviews with reporters, all the officers and soldiers of the teaching regiment who hated Wu Ming deeply and even cursed Wu Ming countless times behind their backs for not dying well, suddenly felt grateful to the demonic Wu Ming, and almost every officer and soldier was sincerely grateful to Wu Ming for his selfless teaching, and was full of confidence in himself, the teaching regiment and even the future of the entire Zhejiang army.

This gratifying phenomenon made Liu Rulin and Ma Zhizhai so happy that they couldn't close their mouths, and their hanging hearts were also put down, and they knew that from today onwards, a new army that had poured a lot of their efforts into it finally took shape.

The next night, Wu Ming, who had received a "special subsidy" of 50,000 yuan from the provincial government, led his team to quietly leave the camp in the west of the city and return to Quzhou on two large inland steamers at the wharf in the south of the city, thanks to the farewell of more than 10 brothers, including Liu Rulin, Ma Zhizhai, and Fan Chunlin.

The trip to Hangzhou was a great deal for Wu Ming, but everything he was about to face made Wu Ming depressed, in addition to a wedding that he himself couldn't say whether it was wise or not, there was also the construction of the arsenal that gave him even more headaches, and the local civil war that could not be avoided in the next two years.