After arguing for a long time without yielding results, Zhang Dongning finally got impatient and handed a note with HSBC account numbers to the family members of the Guangdong businessmen who were spying on intelligence for the Guangdong army, and told them unmistakably: "If our people do not receive the receipt confirmation telegram from the Shanghai branch of the HSBC Bank within three days, you will wait to collect the corpses."

As a result, in less than two days, Gu Yueheng, who had left the military circles and was stationed in the Shanghai Public Concession as the plenipotentiary representative of the Maoliangwu Chamber of Commerce, sent a secret telegram to Wu Ming: "950,000 yuan of payment has been received"

At five o'clock in the morning the next day, Zhang Dongning handed over two Guangdong businessmen and five accomplices to their families, and then directly escorted the group to Jiuduwei on the border of Guangdong and Jiangxi, and pointed to the town opposite that was emitting lights, telling them:

"Come over quickly, maybe you can meet the Cantonese officers and soldiers who sacrificed their lives to spy on intelligence for them...... We claim that you have escaped from prison, and as soon as the morning dawns, the notices of bounty and arrest will be plastered all over the counties of southern Gansu, so don't try to come back, otherwise anyone who kills you will get a huge prize of a thousand oceans...... Do you understand your situation? ”

After Zhang Dongning led his troops to leave, two Cantonese businessmen and five men immediately fell to their knees with weakness and fell to the ground, hugging them together like children, wailing and crying, causing a group of family members to hug their heads and cry together, and soon attracted the Cantonese officers and soldiers who were hiding in the shadows to observe.

In the face of the black muzzles of the Cantonese officers and soldiers who surrounded them, the two bosses, whose faces were full of snot and tears, hurriedly revealed their identities, which aroused great attention from the Cantonese officers and soldiers, and without saying a word, they sent a group of people who had escaped death to the division headquarters in Wujing Town.

Kang Ze saw the newly posted bounty notice on the street, and he didn't have to think much to know that this must be some trick played by Wu Ming again, so the reporter didn't receive it, and the squire didn't meet him, so he rode on a horse and hurriedly ran to Tianxinguan in the west of the city, and entered the main hall to see Wu Ming was handing out the ocean to a group of noisy brothers under his command, and stood aside and watched quietly under curiosity, and waited for a group of fierce officers and soldiers to leave happily, so he asked Wu Ming with a smile: "Your dignified major general and division commander of the national army, do you need to pay your brothers in person?" ”

Wu Ming scratched his head with a smile, and replied truthfully: "This is not a salary, but a bonus, the day before yesterday, I told the brothers of the spy company under my command that a soldier who captured the second division of the Guangdong Army would be rewarded with five oceans, thirty company commanders and fifty battalion commanders, but they brought back more than thirty for me last night, including a quartermaster with the rank of lieutenant colonel......

"For the sake of this quartermaster's bounty, we got together and discussed it for a long time, and finally reluctantly graded him to deputy regiment commander and awarded a hundred oceans, now that I think about it, I feel that it is a loss, I should stick to my opinion, it is reasonable to be regarded as a battalion commander."

"And such a thing?"

Kang Ze was horrified, pointed at Wu Ming and couldn't speak for a long time, and after thinking about it, he didn't have time to dwell on this matter, so he directly asked what happened to the prisoner's escape?

Wu Ming pursed his lips and said disapprenously: "Isn't it better to escape from prison?" They left behind two large warehouses and six large shops in the city, and the shops left all kinds of goods worth hundreds of thousands, real estate land and other things are worth a little money, and at least more than 30 tons of tungsten sand...

"The younger brother is trying to ask the elder brother what to do with it, but it really can't be auctioned off, and the money is used to make up for the food expenses of the captives, which is estimated to be enough for six or seven thousand captives to eat for more than half a year. But this matter is very troublesome, the junior brother doesn't have that spare time in military affairs, why don't you take it over and deal with it with full authority, brother? ”

Kang Ze immediately understood what Wu Ming meant, nodded and smiled quite satisfied, thought about it and asked: "Now that you take the initiative to provoke the Cantonese army on the opposite side, aren't you afraid that they will attack in anger?" ”

Wu Ming waved his hand disdainfully: "If this is the case, I still wish that my brother is too high to look at the Cantonese army on the other side, I will give him a big water tank as a guts, and they will not dare to take the initiative to attack...... I'm afraid you still don't know the way, the two regiments of the Cantonese army stationed in Jieji Town have returned to Wujing Town before dawn today, if you dare to stay, I will ask my brothers to bring mortars to bombard them across the hill tonight."

"As long as they dare to step beyond Jiuduwei, I will beat them to death, and if they send out another reconnaissance team, it will not be enough for my brothers to catch them and receive their rewards...... If I really want to annoy Lao Tzu, I will order to kill a prize and five oceans, and then force them to come and fight with me with the chariot and horse artillery, just as I want to test the coordinated attack technique of positional warfare. ”

Kang Ze was dumbfounded when he heard this, and he could only sigh in Sichuan Yin: "The son of the Immortal Banban Turtle, whoever meets you crazy people is definitely not cultivated in his previous life." ”

Wu Ming and his officers and men had not lived a few days of easy life, and great changes suddenly underwent on both sides of the long battle line from the Jiangxi-Guangdong border to the Hunan-Guangdong border of 1,000 kilometers.

In order to get rid of the passive situation, Li Zongren and Chen Jitang jointly launched a sharp offensive.

On 8 June, Liao Lei, a general under Li Zongren, led the Seventh Army of the Gui Army to the north, attacking all the way, and the momentum was like a bamboo, beating the wavering Hunan army into scattered and fleeing, and very easily occupied Lingling, Andong, Qiyang and other counties in southern Hunan, and the front of the troops was directed at the strategic town of Hengyang.

On the same day, Chen Jitang sent two divisions of the First Army of the Guangdong Army under his command out of Shaoguan to the north, quickly occupied four counties in Hunan, including Chenzhou, Guiyang, and Leiyang, and marched hand in hand with Li Zongren's Seventh Army of the Gui Army, one east and one west, forming a flanking attack on Hengyang; At the same time, the 13th Division and the 1st Independent Division of the Third Army of the Guangdong Army successively drove to Nanxiong, and the 36th Brigade of the 13th Division of the Forward Force suddenly moved north, defeating the two garrison regiments of the Jiangxi Security Forces in only two hours, occupying Meiguan, the choke point of the Jiangxi-Guangdong border, in one fell swoop, posing a huge threat to Dayu in Jiangxi.

The new 1st Division of the Central Army, which had previously retreated to Ganzhou, quickly reinforced Dayu, and formed a confrontation with the 13th Division of the Guangdong Army and a fierce battle broke out.

Fierce battles frequently occurred on both sides of the entire thousand-mile front, but the 100-kilometer front in the Xinfeng area guarded by Wu Ming's troops was quiet and peaceful, perhaps because of the unpredictable attacks and harassment battles under Wu Ming's command day and night, and more than 300 officers and soldiers were lost in just five days, and the 2nd Independent Division of the Guangdong Army took the initiative to retreat 15 kilometers, and then contracted the defensive line and built fortifications on a large scale to cope with all changes.

At this time, Wu Ming was busy packing and transporting more than 6,000 captured Czech rifles, more than 140 Bergman submachine guns, more than 140 brand-new light and heavy machine guns, and nearly one million oceans of stolen money, and at the same time he had to take care of more than 6,400 captives of the Cantonese army and take care of the prisoners' food, drink, and Lazar, so he was not in the mood to pay attention to the independent Second Division, which was huddled on the front line of Wujing Town in northern Guangdong and used obscene tactics.

According to Wu Ming's meaning, as the pace of Japanese aggression is getting closer and closer, in order to preserve the vitality of the country and the nation, it is better not to fight without fighting, and the two sides can maintain the status quo, plus the main battlefield between the central government and the two Guangxi is in southern Hunan instead of southern Jiangnan, and at the same time, the purpose of deterring the opponent has also been achieved, so after paying most of the bonus of 10,000 oceans to reward the capture of prisoners, Wu Ming immediately ordered the two spy companies under the command of Lu Kuiyuan to stop their operations and return to rest, guard the area and go out on reconnaissance missions, It was left to the responsibility of the two main regiments, which had been adequately rested and replenished

Lu Kuiyuan, who had a stubborn personality, did not insist this time, obediently followed Wu Ming's order, and returned to Tianxinguan, where the division headquarters was located, to rest.

After five days and five nights of continuous sorties, Lu Kuiyuan's brothers captured 132 enemy officers and soldiers, killed more than 240 enemy officers and soldiers, most of the brothers were tired, and the enemy also learned wisely, making it more and more difficult to catch alive and knock out the sticks. Relying on the familiarity of the terrain and the cross-cover of superior equipment, and quickly leaving the battlefield, I am afraid that the casualties will be even greater.

The Cantonese army on the opposite side was quiet, but the trouble behind them came.

The local rich gentry, who were shamelessly blackmailed by Wu Ming and extorted grain and grass by Kang Ze in the name of the revolution, quietly sent a representative to Ganzhou three days ago, and then dragged several famous big landowners in Ganzhou City to the provincial capital Nanchang, and complained to the provincial government about Wu Ming's atrocities with a handful of snot and tears.

Xiong Shihui, a representative figure of the big landowners in Jiangxi who had spared no effort to protect the interests of the local gentry for several years, was furious after hearing the report, and immediately called Chiang Kai-shek, severely sued Wu Ming, and strongly demanded the establishment of a special investigation team to carry out an in-depth and meticulous investigation into the bad behavior of Wu Ming and the new Second Division.

Chiang Kai-shek, who had a lot of opportunities, wanted to fly to Changsha to command the operation on the Western Road, so he didn't have time to pay attention to Xiong Shihui's little nonsense, so he handed over Xiong Shihui's long telegram like a piece of paper to Cao Haosen, vice minister of military and political affairs.

Cao Haosen, a good old man, originally wanted to let the Military Judge Advocate Office under his command run away, but after walking around, he found that there were few people in the Military Justice Department at home, and one of the two division chiefs followed Chiang Kai-shek to Changsha to find trouble with He Jian, and the other was still supervising the various troops participating in the encirclement and suppression in the northwest.

Xu Enzeng, director of the Party Affairs Investigation Department, sent a telegram of inquiry to Wu Ming quickly, and after the telegram, he asked why Wu Ming had offended Sun Ke? At a special meeting on the issue of Guangzhou-Guangxi held yesterday, Sun Ke suddenly mentioned that Wu Ming's unit had the problem of extorting prisoners of war from the Guangdong army.

When receiving Xu Enzeng's telegram, Wu Ming was greatly annoyed by the unresponsiveness and actions of the Cantonese army on the issue of prisoners, and the telegram sent by Xu Enzeng was tantamount to adding fuel to the fire.