On February 28, the 26th year of the Republic of China, the eighteenth day of the first lunar month, the morning of the third day after the Lantern Festival.

Longpan Road, Nanjing, the compound of the Central Military Committee.

Chiang Kai-shek, who had returned from Shanghai from Shanghai to attend the Third Plenary Session of the Fifth Kuomintang Central Committee and consolidate his power, was in the chairman's office to review the Yan'an revisation submitted by Zhang Chong, a member of the Central Executive Committee of the Kuomintang who was in charge of negotiations with the Chinese Communists.

After reading the report, Chiang Kai-shek said to Chen Bui, who was standing in front of his desk: "Zhou Xiangyu's proposal that the Red Army be reorganized into six divisions, each with three regiments, and at least 70,000 men in addition to the general headquarters, is simply too deceitful. ”

"It doesn't matter"

Chen Bui hurriedly comforted: "Since it is a negotiation, it is naturally a bargain, where can there be negotiations all at once?" Mr. Huainan will definitely follow the teachings of the chairman and stick to the bottom line unswervingly. Given the current embarrassing situation of the CCP after the passage of the "Resolution on Eradicating the Red Scourge" at the Plenum of the Central Committee, they will certainly seriously consider the goodwill released by the chairman."

"Okay, then continue to talk until we come up with a result that everyone can accept, and stop the mouths of those who say that I 'just want to fight a civil war and don't want to resist Japan, it's a pity, and the good situation of suppressing the CCP for many years will be ruined......

Speaking of this, Chiang Kai-shek shook his head regretfully, and was about to instruct Chen Bui to draft a telegram, when Wang Shihe, the chief of the guard, pushed open the door and walked in: "Chairman of the committee, Dai Yunong has something important to ask to see."

Dai Li went to Xi'an to make great contributions to the rescue of Chiang Kai-shek, and now the saint is thick, Chiang Kai-shek smiled and waved his hand to signal that Zhilu Dao had arrived, and taught Chen Bui face-to-face: "Yan Ji, tell Zhang Huainan that I only allow the CCP troops to be reorganized into three divisions and combine them into nine regiments, and the rest of the matters must also comply with the provisions of the "Resolution on the Eradication of Red Calamity", unify the army, unify the political power, stop the propaganda of redness, and stop the class struggle...... In this way, everything is easy to talk about, otherwise it will be difficult for me to explain it to all my party colleagues. ”

Chen Bui was ordered to draft the telegram, and Dai Li followed Wang Shihe into the office, saluted Chiang Kai-shek and said respectfully: "Principal, Fang Zhibin sent a telegram from Changshan, that unruly one!" Wu Ming ......"

"What did that Wu Ming do again?" Chiang Kai-shek interrupted Dai Li's report and asked unhappily.

"Not really"

Dai Li hurriedly explained: "Wu Ming submitted a situation analysis report through Fang Zhibin, saying that with the imminent cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, the anti-Japanese united front has been initially formed, coupled with the chairman's 'five principles' on the 5th of this month, 'not to talk about anti-Japanese, but to talk about resisting Japan, strengthening military training, and other proposals, as well as the Third Plenary Session of the Fifth Central Committee of the 18th of this month, the Third Plenary Session of the Fifth Central Committee passed the "Rapid Organizing the People, Training, and Arming the People as the Basic Motion for the General Mobilization of the War of Resistance", etc., all of which show that we have begun to prepare for a war. In order to gain the strategic initiative, the Japanese side will certainly launch a war of aggression against China ahead of schedule. ”

Wu Ming predicted that by August and September this year at the latest, the flames of war would ignite in North China, and then quickly spread from north to south throughout China, and Shanghai may be the main battlefield of the Sino-Japanese showdown. In view of this, he plans to go to Shanghai for a field trip, and by the way to see the topography along the way and the construction of defense fortifications in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, so as not to be caught off guard in the future."

"Niang Xipi, he is just a major general and division commander, what do you care about? If you are not in your position, you don't seek political power, you are simply playing the piano indiscriminately" Chiang Kai-shek stood up and paced back and forth after scolding, thought for a while, and suddenly turned around and asked: "What has the Japanese moved in the past two months?" ”

Dai Li obviously prepared in advance, and did not neglect other work because he was busy dealing with the aftermath of the Xi'an incident, and reported without thinking:

"During the chairman's stay in Xi'an, the Japanese army in China frequently held military exercises as a threat. On 4 July, Kiyoshi Hasegawa, commander of the Japanese Navy's Third Fleet, held a military parade in Shanghai's Hongkou Park, attended by more than 3,000 people, including Rear Admiral Okawa Uchidenchi and Ambassador Shigeru Kawayue. ”

Only a week later, the Second Wing of the Japanese North China Garrison Army held a review at Tianjin Huitong Airport, with Wing Commander Xuandao as commander, Lieutenant General Tashiro Wanichiro, commander of the Japanese North China Garrison, Major General Hashimoto Qun, chief of staff, and staff officer and Zhiying No. 2 Daisa present at the review. Later, more than 1,000 members of the First Wing of the Japanese Army stationed in Beiping held a parade at the playground of the Dongdan Japanese Army in Beiping, which was attended by Major General Shozo Kawabe, commander of the brigade, and Takeo Imai, assistant military attache of the Japanese Embassy in China. Not long after, the Japanese troops stationed in Fengtai also held a review. ”

"In late January and February, the Japanese army held several military exercises in Shanghai and Beiping, and its wolf ambitions were clearly exposed

"Enough"

Chiang Kai-shek returned to his seat and sat down, raised his hand to stop Dai Li, and then said to Lu Xia, asking directly: "What do you think about this?"

Dai Li did not hesitate: "I think these reviews and exercises are more intimidating than practical. Judging from the news coming from within Japan, the Japanese Government and the top echelons of the armed forces are not willing to go to war with us, and on 23 last month, the general cabinet of Hirota Hiroki resigned, and at the end of the month, the cabinet of Hayashi Mijuro was formed, and the new Japanese government frequently showed goodwill. ”

Speaking of this, Dai Li took out a file from his briefcase, opened it, glanced at it, and continued to report: "In his policy speech on the 15th of this month, the fourth day after the formation of the cabinet, Hayashi said: 'In addition to the government, Japan-China relations will also expand people-to-people contacts, integrate the feelings of the people of the two countries, and make diplomatic relations clear, with a view to achieving stability in East Asia by relying on Japan-China cooperation and mutual assistance. ,”

"Sato, the former Japanese ambassador to France and known as a 'liberal', was appointed as the foreign minister of the Hayashi Cabinet, and at the beginning of his tenure, he declared: 'In the past, Japan's diplomacy with China had the need to fully review,' 'we should not forget the other side in diplomacy,' and 'At present, the only way to deal with the Sino-Japanese issue is a coup d'état.' It can only be resolved by starting anew, 'that 'representations between fully independent States should be based on equal status, which is the usual course of international relations. ,”

At the same time, according to feedback from intelligence officers in Tokyo, Kenji Kodama, president of the Japan-China Business Association, announced in a high-profile manner that he would lead a Japanese economic delegation composed of Japanese bankers and industrialists to visit China next month. At the same time, the Lin Mo cabinet also suspended the 'North China Partition Policy, which had been pursued by successive Japanese governments since the Great Wall War of Resistance and caused the deterioration of Sino-Japanese relations. ”

"All in all, there is no sign of an arms expansion war in Japan at present, and the tense atmosphere between China and Japan has eased in the face of the goodwill released by the Japanese side.

"Very good"

Chiang Kai-shek nodded appreciatively: "Your analysis and the opinions of those experts on international issues in the Military Committee coincide, which shows that you have worked hard and deserve to be a good student of mine." However, this Wu Ming is very capable, and some of his views should not be underestimated, in case of misfortune being caught in his words, the consequences will be unimaginable...... In addition......"

Chiang Kai-shek pondered for a moment and made up his mind: "Since Wu Ming is idle and bored in Quzhou and has the idea of moving, then let Fang Zhibin accompany him to Shanghai for a trip, as he said, by the way, to investigate the construction of the national defense line in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, it is best to put forward some reasonable suggestions and reports, and if there is no change, it will be encouraged." ”

"Yes"

After Dai Li left Chiang Kai-shek's office, he remembered that he had forgotten to report the news that Wu Ming had said that he had discovered a natural high-quality fluorite mine in the mountains southwest of Maoliangwu.

Kaihua county in the north of Changshan, located at the junction of seven counties of Zhejiang, Jiangxi and Anhui provinces, is the source of the Qianjiang River, the mother river of Zhejiang Province, the whole territory of the peaks and peaks overlap, the mountains are continuous, 90% of the place is mountainous, known as "nine mountains, half water and half fields". The rugged and unique terrain and landform that are not good for travel ensure that it is not easy to be affected by the flames of war in the future Sino-Japanese war, so the county seat of Kaihua is the place that Wu Ming attaches the most importance to outside Maoliangwu.

Just as Chiang Kai-shek and Dai Li were discussing the report submitted by Wu Ming, Wu Ming, who was secretly calculating Fang Zhibin, the overseer of the army, appeared at the riverside wharf in the east of Kaihua City.

Before the official reply of the Military Committee was issued, as the deputy chief of staff of the New Second Division in charge of political and ideological work, Fang Zhibin was ambitious to complete the inspection of all regiments and battalions of the New Second Division in order to have a comprehensive understanding of the situation of Wu Ming's headquarters, and then set up political training institutions at all levels according to the actual situation.

In this case, Wu Ming, who didn't want Fang Zhibin to know the real situation of Mao Liangwu, accompanied the annoying deputy chief of staff to Kaihua County to inspect the garrison.

After getting off the boat, Wu Ming apologized, and threw Fang Zhibin to Fan Daoquan, the commander of the Second Regiment of the First Brigade who came to greet him, and then took Steve and Adjutant Sun Chengyuan to the training base at the foot of Yuping Mountain in the west of Kaihua City.

Sun Chengyuan, who had been promoted to lieutenant after the war against Guangdong, had become more and more senior, and in this way, Wu Ming's third adjutant Mo Mingqi finally got what he wanted, and was successfully transferred to the commander of the support battalion of the independent regiment under the division after the Spring Festival, and officially began to lead troops at the grassroots level.

The main station of the new second division in Kaihua County is the Taoxi camp in the east of Kaihua City, this camp was originally the barracks of the second regiment of the new 10th brigade, with the expansion of the troops last year, the camp began to expand, the engineer battalion directly under the command and the infrastructure company under the jurisdiction of the Maoliangwu Chamber of Commerce took three months to complete, the scale is basically the same as the Changshan battalion, there is still room for further expansion, and now the officers and soldiers of the third regiment of the second brigade are stationed here.

The training base at the foot of Yuping Mountain in the west of the city where Wu Ming went was a secret institution, claiming to be the training base of the Party Affairs Investigation Office of the Organization Department of the Central Committee, but in fact it had nothing to do with the CC Department and the Party Affairs Investigation Department.