Volume 3 Step by Step Chapter 204 Reckoning with the Autumn Queen (I)

At 5:30 p.m. on 19 December, the Military Affairs Committee sent another stern reply, instructing Wu Ming to lead his troops north by train within 24 hours.

Wu Mingle was broken, and sent a phone call to Qi Ke to confirm, and then left the regiments, battalions, and supplementary brigades directly under the division in Changshan, and only took 7,000 brothers from the first and second brigades, set off lightly, and slowly marched on foot for 22 hours to arrive in Quzhou.

After receiving 400,000 legal dollars and the equipment of a regiment, Wu Ming directly asked Chief of Staff Zhang Dongning to transport it back to the Changshan military camp, and then urgently reported to the Military Committee:

At 6:40 p.m. on the afternoon of 20 July, Wu Mingjing, the new Second Division, presented the new 2nd Division

It was not until the afternoon of 22 February that the Military Committee, which was deploying troops everywhere and launching an air raid on Xi'an, had no time to deal with Wu Ming's telegram, and on the one hand bitterly scolded the Quzhou military station for being irresponsible, and on the other hand, urgently dispatched three special trains from Shanghai and Hangzhou to Quzhou, which was delayed for three and a half days.

At 11:40 p.m. on 24 December, three special trains hurriedly arrived at the Quzhou Railway Station, and Wu Ming's unit boarded the three special trains slowly.

At two o'clock in the morning, three special trains rumbled northward, and they walked quite fast without stopping all the way, and arrived in Shanghai smoothly in only 14 hours, and then the train stopped on the special line of the army, and the officers and men of Wu Ming's department got off the train one after another to eat.

At 3:50 p.m. on 25 July, the officers and men of the New Second Division boarded their vehicles again and drove away from the special line of the Shanghai Navy and marched westward with a roar.

In accordance with the requirements of the Military Committee, the New Second Division immediately got off the train after arriving in Nanjing, crossed the Yangtze River by ferry, and then boarded the train again at Pukou Station to rush to the Northwest Front.

The officers and soldiers on the car heard the sound of firecrackers in the whole city, as lively as the New Year, and they didn't know what was going on in the road, only Wu Ming, who was sitting in the middle of the command carriage, grinned non-stop.

Several brigade commanders and deputy brigade commanders asked curiously what to laugh at? Wu Ming replied that we are going to go back to Changshan, but none of the brothers believed Wu Ming's words, and Dai Ziran, the head of the operations section, deliberately asked Wu Ming if he had a fever?

As a result, in less than two minutes, the representative of the Military Committee stationed at the station hurriedly found Wu Ming and told him that there was no need to go any further, that Chairman Jiang had been released and that he had now flown safely to Luoyang, and that the special train was about to turn around and drive back, but it could only send Wu Ming and his brothers to Hangzhou, and the special train must rush back to Shanghai as soon as possible to stand by.

Wu Ming had no opinion on this, warmly shook hands with the representative of the military committee stationed at the station, and then shouted at the brothers in the car: "If you want to pee, hurry up, let's rush back to Hangzhou, haluha."

The Xi'an Incident, which lasted for half a month, shook China and even the world, but gradually calmed down with the release of Chiang Kai-shek and the temporary reconciliation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party.

The political factions in the country and the European and American powers, which feared that a large-scale civil war in China would affect their own interests, all joined hands in celebration, and large-scale celebratory parades ensued throughout the country, and the major newspapers rejoiced and praised them, as if the peaceful resolution of the incident had brought infinite hope to the suffering Chinese nation.

Wu Ming, who led his troops back to Hangzhou, was warmly received by Liu Rulin, acting director of the Zhejiang Provincial Security Department, Ma Zhizhai, chief of staff of the Zhejiang Security Command, and other generals.

In the face of the old friends who were full of bullets and crowns, Wu Ming did not have the slightest joy except for sighing and sighing, he knew very well in his heart that the huge impact of the Xi'an incident not only did not end, but had just begun, and the most important thing was that the KMT-CPC peace talks had deeply touched the sensitive nerves of the Japanese, and the Japanese who had been trying their best for decades to invade China absolutely could not sit still.

In Wu Ming's view, the fierce confrontation between the various factions of the Kuomintang in this incident, and even the fall into the ground, fully exposed the huge contradictions and hidden dangers of separatism contained in the Kuomintang and the central government, which had completely relied on Chiang Kai-shek personally to maintain him. I also saw the true face of many confidants and lovers who have been extremely loyal to him for many years, but swayed left and right at a critical juncture and even wanted to replace him.

What Wu Ming admired very much was that after Chiang Kai-shek arrived in Nanjing safely, not only did he not immediately settle accounts and hold anyone responsible, but instead asked the Central Executive Committee to return to his hometown Fenghua to recuperate in a very low-key manner, and then left the chaotic city of Nanjing with a gloomy face.

Chiang Kai-shek's forbearance of retreating into advance frightened the betrayers in the party and the army, and even caught the political opponents who were preparing to fight to the death by surprise, so that the entire military and political leadership of the Nanjing government was in chaos and could not live in panic.

Up to now, no one is capable of cleaning up this mess except Chiang Kai-shek, who is deeply popular among the people and has the open support of the European and American powers, but if Chiang Kai-shek is to be invited back again, I am afraid that all factions will have to pay an unprecedented and painful price to do so.

The day after returning to Hangzhou, the two brigades of the New Second Division returned to Quzhou by train in batches.

Wu Ming stayed in Hangzhou for four days and signed a series of purchase contracts with Father Lei Mengde's pharmaceutical trading company, his old friend Ai Youde's Belgian foreign firm, and the three major textile factories in Hangzhou, ordering medical medicines, weapons and equipment, optical instruments, raw materials, various fabrics, and other materials, totaling as much as 3 million yuan, and the delivery deadline was set within four months.

Liu Rulin and Ma Zhizhai were stunned by Wu Ming's generosity, and on the platform where Wu Ming was sent off at Xiaoshan Station, Liu Rulin finally couldn't help but ask the doubts in his heart:

"Little brother, where did you get so much money? What is the purpose of so many supplies? Could it be that the all-out war between China and Japan that you predicted is really coming?

Wu Ming withdrew his gaze from the bustling crowd, and his expression was extremely solemn: "Regardless of whether the two elder brothers believe that the Sino-Japanese war will come soon, the younger brother is convinced, if the two elder brothers can trust the younger brother, please hurry up and get ready." As for the question of money, to be honest, although a contract of three million was signed, the younger brother now has no money, and can only guarantee it with his reputation over the years......

"But there are four months to raise funds, it is estimated that the problem is not big, Zhejiang is rich, there are not 30 rich gentry with a family property of 1 million, but there are 20 families, and if the younger brother is not enough to make up 3 million, he will be cheeky to borrow from them, and each family only needs to lend 200,000 or 300,000 to the younger brother, and he is not afraid that he will not be able to fill this big hole."