On the morning of that day, news suddenly came from Hangzhou that Wu Ming, commander of the new Second Division, would have a banquet at the Gongxiulou Hotel in Xiaoshan at noon for General Liu Jianxu, director of the Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, and Anhui Border Region Appeasement Office, who would soon take up his post in Quzhou.

Before the opening of the banquet, Liu Rulin, acting director of the security department, Ma Zhizhai, chief of staff of the security headquarters, Fan Maolin, chief of the training section of the Zhejiang army's security division, and other Zhejiang generals and schools came together, and more than a dozen celebrities in Xiaoshan business circles rushed to visit, and Wu Ming's banquet money was settled early, and the people of the county were even more agitated, and thousands of people flocked to Gongxiu downstairs to see Wu Ming, the number one fierce general in the Zhejiang army.

At present, the situation between China and Japan is extremely delicate, and the people of Zhejiang hope that the legendary invincible Wu Ming and his soldiers can protect their hometown.

Liu Jianxu originally just wanted to make a false accusation and wait until he got out of danger to find trouble with Wu Ming, but when he saw Wu Ming and Liu Rulin, Ma Zhizhai and other Zhejiang army generals and colonels meeting and talking very happily, Zhu Jiahua, governor of Zhejiang Province and director of the Department of Civil Affairs, Cheng Yuanfan, director of the Department of Finance, Wang Wei, director of the Department of Construction, Xu Shaodi, director of the Department of Education, and other government officials called to express their condolences.

Fang Zhibin, deputy chief of staff of the New Second Division, was very surprised, he couldn't figure out what happened overnight, and why Liu Jianxu, who was a senior member of the military, not only did not hold Wu Ming responsible, but instead agreed to attend this kind of social event that was purely to show friendly exchanges to the outside world, and he showed great interest.

For a while, Fang Zhibin's jealousy of Wu Ming deepened.

In the elegant private room, the guests and hosts are seated.

West Lake vinegar fish, drunken shrimp, Huaxi Yu, fried beef, Dongpo chicken, garlic vermicelli scallops were served successively, and the wine was four special wines from the neighboring province of Jiangxi Zhangshu, Wu Ming first poured the wine glass in front of everyone, and took the lead in standing up and raising a glass and said:

"Chief Liu has taken up his new post and is in charge of the military affairs of the border areas of the four provinces, and in the future, our new Second Division is likely to eat under the command of Chief Liu.

After speaking, without waiting for Liu Jianxu to stand up and respond, Wu Ming drank it all, and then the cup fell to the mouth, without even spilling a drop of wine.

"How dare you"

Liu Jianxu had no choice but to stand up, and said with a smile: "Hui Xian (Liu Jianxu) first came to Zhejiang, his eyes were black, and all he heard was Wu Nong's soft words, and it was difficult to even find someone to say.

Liu Jianxu's official dialect has a strong Hunan accent, which is incompatible with the local dialect of Zhejiang. Liu Rulin and Ma Zhizhai were polite, and together with Fang Zhibin, they got up and touched Liu Jianxu's wine glass lightly, and Wu Ming also greeted the wine glass that had just been filled with wine, and drank a full glass again in the sound of "jingling".

With wine as a matchmaker, the banquet quickly became warm.

It was only at this time that Liu Rulin remembered something and asked curiously: "The notice of the Ministry of Military Affairs on General Liu's appointment as the director of the Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, and Anhui Border Region Pacification Office has only been issued to the Provincial Security Department for two days...... General Liu is here to inspect the garrison environment in Quzhou, right? ”

Liu Jianxu smiled very reluctantly: "Originally, there was a consideration in this regard, but last night I hit it off with Brother Wu Ming, and talked with candles and nights, I heard that in the past two years, under Brother Wu's repeated blows to the surrounding bandits, the law and order in western Zhejiang was good, and the communist army has long been extinct." Now, under the governance of General Fang Youchun, the commissioner of the Quzhou Administration, Quzhou and the surrounding areas are prosperous and prosperous, and there is no need for me to join in the fun......"

"As everyone knows, in the past two years, under the unremitting blows of the Guangdong Army and the Fujian Army under the command of General Zhang Xianghua, former director of the Border District Office, the communist army south of the Yangtze River has become a climate. I took up the post of director of the Fujian-Zhejiang-Jiangxi-Anhui Border Region Pacification Office, and although I still shouldered the responsibility of fighting the Communist Red Army and the guerrillas, my main purpose was to deal with the increasingly severe Sino-Japanese crisis......"

"Once China and Japan fight in Songhu in the future, Zhejiang will become the front line of resistance against Japan, in this case, I want to change the station from Quzhou to Shaoxing, so that it can also be closer to the Songhu battlefield, so that our troops can be dispatched, can the Provincial Security Department and I be named together with the Military Committee and the Ministry of Military Affairs to make a statement?"

"Shaoxing?"

Liu Rulin was very surprised, he looked at Wu Ming, who was smiling brightly, and then at Liu Jianxu, who had a serious face, and said after a while:

"The Shanghai-Hangzhou-Ningbo Railway Ningbo to Cao'e River section has been completed and opened to traffic as early as the third year of the Republic of China, and the Xiaoshan to Cao'e River section will also be opened to traffic within the year...... Personally, I don't have any opinion, with the general and his elite officers and soldiers guarding the coastal areas of eastern Zhejiang, the wealthy Shaoxing and Ningbo are bound to be as stable as Mount Tai, and the security of Hangzhou's flanks is also fully guaranteed......"

"However, in this way, I am afraid that the general will have to change his name to the director of the appeasement office in Zhejiang, because the Shaoxing garrison in the hinterland of Zhejiang is difficult to coordinate the military affairs of Anhui, Jiangxi and Fujian provinces."

Liu Jianxu said in his heart that Quzhou, which is naturally the "thoroughfare of nine provinces" and whose wealth is not inferior to Shaoxing, is the most suitable, but now that Wu Ming, the mourning star, is there, and there is also a commissioner Fang Youchun, who is in cahoots with him, he can't reach out for military affairs and government affairs.

"I don't think it's anything"

Liu Jianxu explained with a smile: "Didn't General Zhang Xianghua set up his headquarters in Nanping in northern Fujian before? It is also far away from Anhui, and I have not seen anyone question the decision of the Military Committee, and now our opponent is the Japanese who are sharpening their knives, and the focus of our work should naturally revolve around the war against Japan, and Shaoxing is the best choice......"

"By the way, as far as I know, after General Zhang Xianghua stepped down as director of the Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, and Anhui Border Region Pacification Office, he has been reappointed by the Military Committee as the director of the Jiangsu-Zhejiang Border Region Pacification Office, specializing in the defense of the Jiangsu-Zhejiang Border Region on the north shore of Hangzhou Bay.

Rao was mentally prepared, but Liu Rulin was still shocked after hearing it, and he had the feeling that the wind and rain would meet Hangzhou.

Since he is the director of the appeasement office of the Jiangsu-Zhejiang border region, the Guangdong army and the Fujian army will certainly move north from the Fujian-Guangdong garrison, and with Liu Jianxu's Hunan army, the whole of Zhejiang has shown a trend of being strong and weak.

Zhejiang is Chairman Chiang's hometown, and there are three unwritten rules for Chairman Chiang's life in employing people: the first is to reuse soldiers from the Whampoa department, because he himself started from the Whampoa department; the second is to reuse the fellow villagers in Zhejiang; The third is to reuse people who are capable and loyal to themselves. The second article is sufficient to prove that Chairman Chiang attaches great importance to Zhejiang, and in fact Zhejiang was Chairman Chiang's private territory before that, as evidenced by the fact that the Zhejiang army has been requisitioned and reorganized into the Central Army system on many occasions.

Under such circumstances, Chairman Chiang will certainly take the initiative to balance the relationship between the host and the guest, and the military and political circles in Zhejiang will not necessarily have another major turmoil.

Thinking of this, Liu Rulin nodded: "General Liu, you and I are from our own family, and five hundred years ago we said that we are not necessarily the same sect...... Hello everyone, our security department is willing to name the Military Committee and the Ministry of Military Affairs, but I can't guarantee whether the above will adopt it."

Liu Jianxu smiled slightly: "As long as the Provincial Security Department agrees, it shouldn't be a big problem" Speaking of this, he picked up the wine glass that had just been filled by Wu Ming in front of him, took a sip, and praised: "This wine is good, it is not inferior to our Wuling wine in Hunan, but it's a pity ......"

Wu Ming knew what it was a pity for Liu Jianxu, he was originally a good emperor in Hunan, and he had the right to soldier, and no one was afraid. When the dust settled, the situation in Hunan was out of control, and the big brother He Jian had to lose his military power as the chairman of Hunan Province to specialize in government affairs, and the various departments of the Hunan army were also scattered, and he could no longer twist into a rope to fight against the central government, and he had to listen to the announcement, and came to Zhejiang, where people and land were unfamiliar, and he would have to face the fierce Japanese devils in the future.

Wu Ming said with a spring breeze on his face: "Shaoxing is a thousand-year-old capital, after Yu ruled the water, there was Ji, the title, the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the Yue King Goujian built the capital in Si, the Qin and Han dynasties set up Huiji County, under the jurisdiction of the Qiantang River south of the fifteen counties, the Three Kingdoms belonged to the Eastern Wu, the Sui and Tang Dynasties descended to the south of the Qiantang River area gradually developed, the Northern Song Dynasty set up Yuezhou, the Southern Song Dynasty named Shaoxing Mansion, to the Ming Dynasty when capitalism sprouted Shaoxing has become the richest area in the world. From the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China to the Northern Expedition, eastern Zhejiang did not experience war, and the degree of wealth was far from being comparable to Quzhou."

"In the Shaoxing garrison, the troop movement and supply are very convenient, especially the important thing is that Shaoxing has produced beauties since ancient times, and Xi Shi, the first of the four beauties, is a native of Zhuji Lai Luo Village, Shaoxing, and it is not difficult for Chief Liu to work hard, and it is not difficult to hold the beauty."

Liu Jianxu smiled bitterly: "Master Wu said that he was joking, the national disaster is at the head, where does Liu have this leisure?" According to the requirements of the Military Commission and the Ministry of Military Affairs, in the next month, the shelves of the Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, and Anhui Border Region Pacification Office must be erected, but in order to avoid overstimulating the Japanese, the troops will not be transferred for a while, and I think the same is true for Zhang Xianghua's side. ”

"Since the Zhangyang Incident in Xi'an, the Military Committee has implemented the policy of suppressing the southern part of the country, stopping the military offensive against the main force of the communist army in the north, but still carrying out the established strategy of searching and suppressing the communist guerrillas stranded in the eight provinces of Hunan, Jiangxi, Fujian, Zhejiang, Hubei, Henan, Anhui, and Guangdong, and will not stop the ...... of the southern part of the country."

"Bang bang—"

The door of the private room was suddenly knocked on outside, and the adjutant and guard captain who sat at another table in the box accompanied Liu Rulin, Ma Zhizhai, Liu Jianxu and others, as well as Zhang Dongning, the chief of staff of the new Second Division who had dinner with Fan Chunlin, Shi Steve, Sun Chengyuan, Du Pingzhang, Lei Biao, etc., took the initiative to get up and open the door, and the chief of the communications section of the Provincial Security Department walked in, nodded to Zhang Dongning as a greeting, and smiled at everyone in the box, and then walked to the side of Liu Rulin, the acting director, and reported softly:

"General Chen Cheng, executive secretary of the Ministry of Military Affairs, has already passed Jiaxing, and General Chen Cheng is very happy to know that Division Commander Wu is in Xiaoshan, and invites Division Commander Wu and Division Chief to his villa in West Lake for a party in the evening. In addition, General Zhang Xianghua, the new director of the Appeasement Office of the Jiangsu-Zhejiang Border Region, arrived in the same car as General Chen Cheng, who asked General Liu to postpone his trip to Quzhou, and he will have a banquet tomorrow at the Zhiweiguan at the Yanggong Embankment of the West Lake to discuss the great plan."

Although the voice of the chief of the communications section was very low, Liu Jianxu could still hear it clearly, and now Chen Cheng, a celebrity next to Chairman Jiang, came to Hangzhou, and the first thing he did was to inform Wu Ming to go to his private residence for a party, which fully explained Wu Ming's position in his mind. As a representative of the Hunan army, he has no foundation at the top, and if he wants to deal with a local snake like Wu Ming who has both background and ability, he is still unable to deal with it.

Moreover, when Liu Jianxu came to Zhejiang, he had already inquired about the situation of the Zhejiang army, and Wu Mingxin's second division, which belonged to the Central Army, could be said to be an alternative in the Zhejiang army, and the troops he led were extremely combative, and when they were in the Lushan training camp, they had the strength of only two companies, one of which was still an engineer company, and during the exercise, they simply beat the two battalions of the Second Central Guard Regiment to the ground, and even the old nest was dug up, which directly led to the tragedy of a battalion commander and 31 officers and men of the Central Special Service Regiment of Chairman Jiang sneaking up on Wu Ming's troops, and most of them were killed or wounded.

In the campaign against Liangguang, the troops led by Wu Ming faced the pressure of one army and two divisions of the Guangdong army alone with a brigade on the border of Guangdong and Jiangxi without falling behind, and achieved the good result of destroying a division of the Guangdong army at the beginning of the war, causing great chaos in the Guangdong army and accelerating the destruction of Chen Jitang, the king of the Southern Heavenly Heaven.

Judging from these circumstances, Wu Ming's new second division is good at fighting tough battles, and if it really confronts the Japanese army in the future, it may not really rely on it to protect its flanks.

Thinking of this, Liu Jianxu's eyes softened a lot when he looked at Wu Ming.