It stands to reason that what happened in Beidaying in Quzhou is not a major event, but what happened in Quzhou is like a bubble in the tide of the white crest of the waves when the Japanese invaders are pushing into North China and the people of the whole country are shouting for resistance.

But in the eyes of the political science bigwigs who fell into the top of politics, what happened in Quzhou was shocking.

When the remnants of the 18th Army were left in Quzhou for recuperation, some people dared to deliberately create public opinion under the pretext of close military-civilian relations, and to complain loudly about the culprits of the failure in the encirclement and suppression operation, and even mobilized the people's forces to donate money to support the army without going through the Quzhou Administrative Office, thus highlighting and disseminating the prestige of the defeated generals of the remnants of the 18th Army from the side, and skillfully creating public opinion that "the officers and men of the 18th Army were treated unjustly, and were wronged, shedding blood and tears", and quickly spread it.

Yang Yongtai of the Nanchang camp received a call from Lu Zhongxiu, commissioner of the Quzhou Administrative Bureau, and immediately summoned Xiong Shihui and others to investigate the mastermind behind the scenes, and after a little discussion, they unanimously determined that this was a conspiracy of the CC department, and the purpose was to win the favor of the military and political circles by overturning the case for Chen Chenghe, the main culprit, and the 18th Army, which was mainly responsible.

In the end, a group of bigwigs from the Department of Political Science formed a consensus:

It is not advisable to resolutely counterattack or intensify the pressure on Chen Cheng and the 18th Army, so it is better to take advantage of the situation and add another fire, comprehensively report the "news of supporting the army" in Quzhou, show the existing magnanimity of the political science department that is tolerant of all rivers, and wait to see how public opinion from all walks of life in the country evaluates Chen Cheng, who is arrogant and stubborn, and who has lost his troops and lost his troops, and the 18th Army, which has returned home? Then, he added fuel to the fire, skillfully guided public opinion, and quietly shifted the pressure to Chairman Chiang, who ultimately handled the matter.

Wu Ming, who was busy with Maoliangwu's affairs, was completely ignorant of everything that happened in the outside world, stayed in Maoliangwu for three days to finish things, and took his interested wife to ride a horse to the shooting range at the southern foot of Phoenix Mountain early in the morning to shoot targets.

Long Shaogang, the deputy head of the regiment who received Fang Youchun's telegram of inquiry, heard that Wu Ming had returned, and immediately rushed to the Chinese government in the city with the telegram.

Wu Ming was taken aback after reading the telegram, he never expected that the local newspapers in Zhejiang had not yet reported it, and the "Central Daily", "Republic of China Daily" and many newspapers in Shanghai had praised the grand event of Quzhou from all walks of life in rewarding the 18th Army, and it had become a typical news event. And hinted that several bigwigs in Nanjing were surprised.

Wu Ming thought for a moment, easily grasped the essence of the problem, and then had a sense of crying and laughing, he was purely sympathetic to Chen Cheng and the officers and soldiers of the 18th Army, and he was very aware of the height that Chen Cheng would reach in the future and the strong power of the "Civil Engineering Department" in the future, strictly speaking, this was a speculative behavior that only he knew about himself, but he never expected that it would anger the Department of Political Science and Science, which is now in full swing, and the CC Department bosses who didn't know all this were shot while lying down, and they were deeply surprised when they were caught off guard.

Wu Ming naturally wouldn't explain these secret thoughts to Long Shaogang, who was brave and simple-minded, he asked Long Shaogang how the supply of military food to the eighteenth brother was in the past few days, and what actions did the generals of the eighteenth army do?

Knowing that Chen Cheng, who had asked for leave to return to his hometown to sweep the tomb and worship his ancestors, was still stranded in Quzhou, and wanted to meet him, Wu Ming couldn't sit still at the moment, so he asked Long Shaogang to sit down and wait for a while, went in and said hello to his wife who was so tired that she just wanted to sleep, so he rushed to the military camp in the north of the city with Long Shaogang, called Dai Ziran, who had returned to the vacation in advance, and drove two Dodge high-horsepower cars that had just returned from Hangzhou maintenance and went straight to Quzhou.

When he arrived in Quzhou, Wu Ming did not go to Chengbei camp first, but first went to the Quzhou General Chamber of Commerce to thank several presidents and directors, took out a list of military procurement worth more than 500,000 yuan, and handed it to several business leaders who had sent hundreds of pigs and 50 tons of rice.

When passing by the time-honored restaurant on North Street, Wu Ming deliberately stopped, personally found a familiar boss with Long Shaogang, booked five tables of banquets and asked him to send his men to Chengbei Ying, and then drove to Chengbei Yingying to meet Chen Cheng.

Chen Cheng, who was very meticulous in military uniform, immediately greeted Wu Ming as soon as he saw him, and grabbed Wu Ming's hand tightly to thank him frequently, Luo Zhuoying, Zhou Zhirou and others rushed over when they heard the news, and a group of people entered the small conference room and talked enthusiastically.

Wu Ming briefly informed him about inspecting the new mining equipment and training of recruits in Maoliangwu in the past few days, and then apologized to Chen Cheng, saying that he really didn't know that Chen Cheng was in Quzhou, otherwise he would have rushed to listen to the teachings even if he marched in the middle of the night, which immediately caused laughter.

Chen Cheng had a very good impression of Wu Ming, who was extraordinary-looking, humble and frank, and asked politely with a smile: "I don't know if Brother Wu knows the reaction of the outside world to Quzhou's army?" ”

Wu Mingha smiled and told the truth about the situation frankly: "At noon today, my younger brother just came back from Maoliangwu, and I received an inquiry telegram from my eldest brother, Deputy Director Fang, asking me what I think? Why don't you do it quietly and make such a big fuss that the whole country knows about it? ”

"The younger brother was very surprised when he heard this, and after thinking about it carefully, he slowly understood, and felt that it was incredible, so he went back to the barracks and called my eldest brother back, telling him that the younger brother was not interested in politics, and only knew who was right and who was wrong, as for why there was such a big movement, it was because the younger brother felt that it should be done, and it should make the brothers of the Eighteenth Army cheer up, and it was indeed a bit of a grievance for the brothers of the Eighteenth Army, but I didn't expect to be quietly remembered."

"Whatever, don't look at it if you can't get used to it, I, Wu Ming, a small local army security chief, don't need to ask anyone, I can't ask for it."

Everyone was happy, and they were also very moved in their hearts, they didn't expect Wu Ming to have such an impulsive and respectable side, Chen Cheng also nodded again and again, showing a heartfelt smile.

Wu Ming hesitated for a moment: "Regarding the failure of this encirclement and suppression, the younger brother thinks like this: Up to now, the encirclement and suppression of the Red Army has been launched four times, and each time it has ended in failure, and the root cause is not in the immediate command, not in which specific army and which division, let alone simply and rudely put the responsibility on the officers and men of the divisions of the Central Army who shed blood and sweat but have not received a fair evaluation, the main mistake is not a tactical mistake, but a strategic mistake has already been made, if you don't make a change in strategy, you will still fail...

"It's not that the younger brother is arrogant, but the politicians in the temple who are high up in the sky and are good at playing with power, they can only talk on paper, and they don't know how to lead troops to fight at all, not only because they failed to suppress bandits, but also because the country's decision-making has frequently made mistakes.

The words fell sonorously, and the generals in the hall were extremely moved, and many people felt that Wu Ming's words had reached their hearts, and they said everything they wanted to say but didn't dare to say.

Chen Cheng was also extremely shocked in his heart, he never expected that the young local security head in front of him would have such a keen political insight, see the current situation so thoroughly, and be so bold and uninhibited, especially the unique opinion that "the strategy has already been wrong, if you don't make changes in strategy, you will fail", Chen Cheng was deeply shocked, and suddenly had a strong sense of confidant.

Wu Ming saw everyone staring at him blankly, and hurriedly coughed, and apologized embarrassedly: "I'm sorry!" The little brother usually hasn't been in contact with any big people, a little excited, the wrong place or the offended place, please bear with me, just ask everyone not to spread this nonsense, otherwise my eldest brother is afraid to be angry again, although the little brother is not afraid of him being angry, but after all, it is a family, and it is embarrassing to meet. ”

The hall burst into laughter, Chen Cheng laughed out loud, and Wu Ming took the opportunity to say that he was going to invite everyone here to apologize to Chen Cheng, which once again caused a burst of laughter from the generals.

After chatting with each other for a while, Chen Cheng instructed everyone to go back and see the brothers in each department, and then took Wu Ming's hand and walked out of the conference room and walked towards the wide and magnificent camp to the east:

"I heard that this camp was designed and supervised by you, and sure enough, there are new ideas everywhere, and the design and overall layout are very reasonable, but when I passed through Changshan, I didn't know the situation of the road, and I didn't go to visit the 500 wounded and sick brothers, so I lost the opportunity to visit the Changshan military camp...... I heard Deputy Army Commander Luo say that although the Changshan camp is not as magnificent as this camp, it has more complete facilities, a more complete layout, and is simple and very practical, I don't know how Brother Wu did it? ”

Wu Ming looked at everything familiar in front of him, and a faint sadness welled up in his heart:

"My younger brother has liked architecture since he was a child, so he has worked hard in this area, and he was forced to build this big camp in the first place, and there is no place to station! At the beginning, this place was still a barren place, and all the funds for the construction of the new military camp added up to only 150,000 yuan, and the younger brother tried every possible way to work together, and it took three months to build, and then the Provincial Security Department, the West Zhejiang Command, and the Quzhou Administration needed to borrow this place to train and teach the team and the county police, and successively invested funds to expand, and the Central Party Department took a fancy to this place for some reason, and also invested two funds to build it into their fixed-point training base. But these have nothing to do with the little brother anymore. ”

Chen Cheng smiled and asked: "Aren't you still the chief military instructor of the Quzhou base hired by the Central Party Department?" ”

Wu Ming briefly told Chen Cheng how he became the chief instructor last year, and said quite self-deprecatingly: "The younger brother has never written an application to join the party, but I didn't expect my eldest brother to call the younger brother on the first night of his transfer to the provincial capital, and after repeated instructions, he threw a file to the younger brother, and the younger brother thought it was a conscription plan or some other substitute training plan, and he didn't look at it, and he didn't open it when he returned to the camp and didn't do anything, and it turned out that there was a party card inside, and the photo inside was me, and I joined the party a year ago, ha, ha! ”

Chen Cheng was stunned for a moment, and then laughed, feeling that Wu Ming was so frank and cute, so maverick, it was too late for ordinary people to cover up this kind of thing, only Wu Ming not only didn't pay attention to it, but also treated it as a joke, which shows that Wu Ming's mind is very open-minded.

Wu Ming waited for Chen Cheng to finish laughing and asked in a low voice, "When will my brother go back to visit his relatives?" ”

"Just in the past two days, the brothers have been properly taken care of by you, Director Yu, Director Fang, and Director Liu, there is no shortage of three meals, morale is gradually restored, I am also relieved, and when the total military expenditure of 200,000 yuan is transferred tomorrow, I can go back, and come back when I return." Chen Cheng told Wu Ming truthfully.

Wu Ming thought for a while: "The personnel of the general manager have changed a lot now, and it is estimated that it will be difficult to take care of this side in a short period of time...... It's better to be like this, the younger brother is very familiar with the Quzhou Chamber of Commerce and the Maoliangwu Chamber of Commerce, first borrow a hundred thousand yuan to the elder brother for emergency, and it is not too late to repay it when he has the money in the future, in addition, the younger brother suggested that the notice be issued through the provincial security department, so that the brothers of the Eighteenth Army can return to the Changshan military camp, which is the territory of the younger brother, and there is no need to look at other people's faces, and it is also very convenient to supplement. If the two armies that carry out training or something can still form a healthy competition, it can be said that there will be many wins in one stone! ”

"Also, the little brother drove two Dodge cars today, just came back from Hangzhou maintenance, and changed to the military license plate of the provincial security department, the brother will find someone to drive back tomorrow, and return it to the little brother on the return trip, if you like it, it's okay if you don't pay it back, this car is bought by the little brother himself, feel free."

Chen Cheng stopped, staring at Wu Ming's indifferent appearance, and couldn't help but choke up a little.