July 18, five a.m.

Wu Ming led 300 officers and men under his command to arrive at the wharf outside Xingzi City on the north shore of Poyang Lake, and under the guidance of the liaison officer of the Second Central Guard Regiment, they entered the new military camp in the north of the city to rest.

During the march, the liaison officer of the Second Guard Regiment and a squad of soldiers were all riding horses, and they were very surprised to see Wu Ming, who was leading a large spotted ugly horse and walking with the officers and soldiers under his command. A versatile waterproof rucksack in grey canvas.

The only thing that stood out to the liaison officer and his soldiers was:

The march of this local contingent was fast, and the officers and men with heavy backpacks and steel picks and sapper shovels were very resilient, and did not say a word on the way, as if they were walking or walking.

Wu Ming, who was leading the horse in the middle of the team, was silent from beginning to end, and when he arrived at the place, he thanked the young major liaison officer, and then pointed to the lonely row of leaky wooden houses in the valley in front of him, and then pointed to the thorns and trees around him, and asked in disbelief: "We are stationed here?" ”

"Yes, this is it."

The liaison officer didn't even get off his horse, and raised his horsewhip and pointed around:

"There's a stream eighty meters southwest, see? If you go around the pile of white stones, you can see that although the barracks are simple, you can still live for 300 people, and we are responsible for the food and vegetables, and we will deliver them every three days, as for your military salary, we need to wait for the quartermaster of the exercise headquarters to come and announce that the exercise site is about the mountain between your station and the Haihui Temple in the north, and someone will naturally send you a map or something...... Okay, what's the problem? ”

Wu Ming thought for a while: "We want to clean up the environment around the station...... The weather is too hot, and there are probably many poisonous insects and poisonous snakes hidden in the grass, and if we don't clean them up, the mountain mosquitoes can toss us to exhaustion. ”

The young major smiled: "Whatever, it's your business to do what you like, except for not using explosives and burning mountains, you can do whatever you want." Let's go, see you again."

Wu Ming stood on the ridge on the side of the road in a daze, the regimental staff officer Dai Ziran, the deputy company commander of the special agent company Lei Peng, and several company commanders all surrounded him, looking at the liaison officer who was beating the horse back and scolding bitterly.

"Tuanzao, it seems that we are not taken seriously," Dai Ziran said with a bitter face.

Wu Ming held back his anger and patiently explained: "Didn't you hear about it in the city just now? Today is the opening ceremony of the Lushan Officer Training Corps, and Chairman Chiang wants to give a speech to all the officers participating in the training, and the leaders of various departments of the Central Military Commission and nearly half of the German advisory group are present at the ceremony, so naturally they have no time to take care of us......"

"Then there is the fact that we are here to be the imaginary enemy of the exercise, and we are local troops to assist the officer corps in the drill and discussion, not the members of the officer corps who came for training, let alone the troops of the Central Army, so we can't ask too much, and it is already good to have this kind of treatment."

Hearing Wu Ming say this, no one dared to complain anymore, and a group of officers ordered the brothers of all departments to rest in place, and followed Wu Ming into the mountain col more than fifty meters ahead, and inspected the row of wooden barracks that were half covered by weeds.

After walking back and forth inside and out, Wu Ming, who rarely gets angry, was about to explode, he pointed to the crumbling, vine-ridden, and musty barracks in front of him, and shouted loudly with his eyes open:

"Give Lao Tzu to overthrow it, the engineer company will cut down trees and bamboos nearby, the infantry company will demolish houses, clean up the foundation and the surrounding environment, the staff team will plan the barracks and camp areas, and arrange guard posts, and the others will take steel pickaxes and shovels and follow me, build a camp gate with a few big rocks and a few big trees in front, and do it yourself, Lao Tzu wants to see what can stump us."

When the brothers heard this, they immediately started to move, and the officers and soldiers of the despised Wu Ming Regiment started a fire that was very terrible, and in the blink of an eye, one by one pine trees were put down, and patches of bamboo were cut down, and even the shrewd old secretary took four men to set up a shelf that could carry heavy loads, carried them on their backs, and quickly went down the mountain, rushing to the lakeside village under the mountain to the east to buy fish, meat and vegetables.

The exercise headquarters of the Lushan Officer Training Corps is a temporary exercise management department, and the person in charge is Chen Cheng's deputy chief of staff and Lieutenant General Guo Chen, a native of Zhejiang who graduated from the sixth phase of Baoding.

Since Guo Cheng also had to accompany Chiang Kai-shek to attend the evening meeting, after being busy in the afternoon, he learned that Wu Ming had led his troops to Chen Cheng, who was stationed at the southern foot of Jianshan, and specially appointed his adjutant Qiu Xingxiang, who graduated from the fifth phase of the Huangpu Infantry Department, to visit Wu Ming.

The Haihui Temple, where the officer training regiment is located, is located in the direction of the north of the southern foot of Jianshan where Wu Ming is stationed, and the straight-line distance between the two places is only 1.6 kilometers, but there are several mountains such as Zhishan, Wujialing, and Jianshan in the middle.

Qiu Xingxiang, who came on horseback with two guards, had seen Wu Ming in Changshan before, and knew very well Wu Ming's deep friendship with his brothers in the Eighteenth Army.

This time, Chen Cheng specially asked him to bring Wu Ming two small boxes of British "Old Knife" brand cigarettes packaged in five aluminum boxes, and a box of twelve bottles of Jiangxi famous wine "Duihua Wine", which made him see Wu Ming's weight in Chen Cheng's heart again.

Because of the fragile goods, Qiu Xingxiang did not dare to run fast along the way, and it took more than half an hour to reach the fork at the southern foot of Jianshan.

Qiu Xingxiang saw a group of officers and soldiers in gray military uniforms erecting the camp gate about five meters inside the crossing, and saw that he was not doing well, so he had to turn over and dismount, and patiently waited for a group of dusty, sweaty officers and soldiers to erect the last big pillar, and then carefully reported forward.

"Chief Wu's good brother came to visit him on the order of the military seat, but you are ......"

When Wu Ming saw the person coming, he immediately showed a bright smile, and stepped forward to greet him with a salute: "Camp Commander Qiu, why did you come here?" ”

Qiu Xingxiang, who was one year younger than Wu Ming, smiled: "Before the junior brother went to the 3rd Battalion of the 354th Regiment of the 175th Brigade as the battalion commander, he served as the attendant adjutant of the military seat. The younger brother returned to the military seat again and did his old job. ”

"Isn't that good? I believe that it won't be long before you have to go down and lead the troops, come here, go in and sit for a while, and declare first, there is only boiling water and no tea, so let's do it. ”

Wu Ming enthusiastically led Qiu Xingxiang into the camp gate, which had not yet been built, and sat down at a long bamboo table made of bamboo in front of the neatly unfolded military tent.

Qiu Xingxiang was very surprised when he saw the busy officers and soldiers around him and the chaotic environment: "Can this place be inhabited?" Which bastard arranged it? ”

Wu Ming replied with a smile: "A major staff officer of the Second Central Guard Regiment stationed in Xingzi led us here, patted our butts, and left...... But it doesn't matter, this place turned out to be a camp, it is estimated that it was left by the troops that were set up here to guard the southern passage, it is a little broken, just tear down and rebuild, we are an engineer unit, it is difficult for us to do this."

"Besides, we are an imaginary enemy who has come to assist in the confrontation exercise, and we belong to the personnel who are not planned to be in the plan, so it is more appropriate to live here...... I heard that this area to the north and west is the preset drill area, which is convenient. ”