If Cheng Qian doesn't say anything again, the guards of the division headquarters will take down these people who dare to make trouble at the entrance of the division department. However, since the division commander said to let these people in, the guards who had already taken out their weapons and were ready to be pressed naturally did not dare to make another mistake, you must know that Master Cheng has always been strictly forbidden by military discipline, and everyone does not want to be beaten for no reason.

A total of six people wearing light yellow low-ranking officer uniforms were brought in, and due to time constraints, the officers and men of the Ninth Division did not have time to change the unified system of the Youth Army, some were wearing the light yellow military uniforms of Beiyang, and some were wearing the blue-gray military uniforms of the Hunan Army. The Ministry of Armaments has already produced new uniforms, but because of Operation Blue Light, these uniforms are now pressed in the warehouse at the Anjiang wharf, and there is simply not enough capacity to send them up.

These six low-level officers were former officers of the Beiyang Army, subordinates of Che Zhen, the commander of the First Division, and the leader was named Zhang Zizhong, a very handsome young man.

This Zhang Zizhong is a native of Linqing, Shandong, and in the summer vacation of 1914, Zhang Zizhong persuaded his mother to go to Xinmin County, Fengtian Province (now Liaoning Province) with about 5 classmates, and joined the army in the 87th Standard (Regiment) of the 39th Association (Brigade) of the 20th Town (Division) of the Army. The standard system (regiment leader) of this subject is the car shock.

Zhang Zizhong and other 6 people went all the way from Shandong to Fengtian to join the army? Because many of the officers and soldiers in the twentieth town are from Shandong, Che Zhen is from Linqing County, and he is still a friend of the third brother of Zizhong (Zhang Qingshan). Che Zhen knew that these six young people were all children of wealthy families, and he was afraid that they would not be able to stand the suffering of the army, so he persuaded them to go home and continue their studies. But they came with a lot of enthusiasm, determined to serve the country, and they couldn't persuade them to leave. Che Zhen saw that he was very determined, so he made up for the lack of a deputy soldier.

At the beginning of 1915, Che Zhen was promoted to commander of the 39th Brigade, and the unit was ordered to move from Xinmin County to Pingdiquan, Suiyuan Province (now part of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region). There was a section of the road that was marching on foot, and the soldiers had to be fully armed, carrying dozens of pounds on their backs, and traveling more than 100 miles a day, exhausted. When camping, each person only had a military blanket, and at midnight in late autumn, he was often awakened by freezing. After more than a year of tempering, Zhang Zizhong has withstood the test, his will is stronger, and he is much more mature, and he can cope with any kind of hardship. And with the care of Che Zhen, the brigade commander, Zhang Zizhong's military career also became smooth, and he soon became an officer and went down to the company to lead the soldiers.

If you want to say that the most aggrieved troops participating in the war during the entire Protectorate War, it must be the 39th Brigade of Beiyang, if they consider themselves second, absolutely no one dares to admit first. In December 1915, Yuan Shikai was proclaimed emperor, and Cai Yi and others organized the Protector Army to crusade against Yuan Shikai. At the beginning of the following year, the 39th Brigade was ordered to move south to suppress the Protector Army. After the Che Zhen Department arrived in Wuhan, Tang Qianming, the Hunan overseer, urged the troops to enter Hunan in view of the fact that the various departments stationed in Hunan had entered Sichuan one after another, and Wang Zhenyu had also rebelled. As a result, Che Zhen's 39th Brigade drove into Changsha, and then Tang Qianming also trusted the Hunan Army at hand to Che Zhen, appointed Che Zhen as the commander of the First Division of the Hunan Army, and the commander went to Hengyang to rescue Ni Sichong.

The subsequent story is purely a cheat, Ni Si rushed to escape, causing Che Zhen to fall into Hengyang and become a lone soldier. Everyone knows what happened next, if there was only Che Zhen's 39th Brigade in Hengyang City at that time, then relying on this group of Shandong soldiers Che Zhen would be able to carry it for a while anyway. But in response to that sentence, I am not afraid of an opponent like a wolf, but I am afraid of a teammate like a pig. There are still more than 10,000 Hunan troops in Hengyang City, and nominally they are still Che Zhen's subordinates, including Lu Diping, the commander of the Second Brigade of the Hunan Army at the time.

The Hunan people are still very interesting, and tell the general Che openly or implicitly, we can't do it like this, we should stand on the side of the winner. The old car is a dead brain, born to be a Beiyang person, and dead to be a Beiyang ghost, so he naturally will not agree to shake hands with Wang Zhenyu, but Che Zhen is also an old Jianghu, and he will not do anything that stands in the way of life.

The result was, of course, a peaceful mutiny, and the 1st Division defected. During the mutiny, Che Zhen did not order his descendants to make any resistance from beginning to end, but only announced his resignation, and then let the officers and soldiers of the 39th Brigade under his command accept the reorganization.

Lu Diping is very grateful for this, but from Cheng Qian's standpoint, it may not be. After Cheng Qian was forced to defect to the Youth Army, in order to ensure his control over the Ninth Division, Cheng Qian sent people to do Che Zhen's work several times, hoping to accept the appointment of the deputy commander of the Ninth Division to help him control the 39th Brigade. But Che Zhen, the old stubborn, was very faceless, even if Cheng Qian personally went out, he didn't agree, and in a fit of anger, Cheng Qian arrested Che Zhen in the name of a war criminal, which led to a scene where Zhang Zizhong and others came to the division headquarters to make trouble.

Cheng Qian looked at the straight Shandong men standing in front of him, and scolded loudly: "What's the matter with you, is there any military law in your eyes?" Dare to make a loud noise in front of the division department, aren't you afraid of being beaten with military sticks? ”

When the young Zhang Zizhong heard Cheng Qian's words, he gritted his neck and said: "Zhang Zizhong, the commander of the first company of the 3rd Battalion of the 903rd Regiment of the Ninth Division, and the other six people, they are not here today to offend the military law and the tiger power of the division, but they feel that the division is unfair, so they have come to appeal to the division. ”

Lu Diping knew Cheng Qian's character of retribution, so at this moment he admired this young man named Zhang Zizhong, who dared to say to his face that Cheng Qian was unfair, this courage is really big.

"Haha, okay, bold enough, you can talk about it, how the division leader is unfair" Sure enough, Cheng Qian was made happy by Zhang Zizhong's words, and actually hahadaxiao. And those who are familiar with him know that this is a precursor to Cheng Qian's rampage, and the guards of the division headquarters are nervously putting their hands on the armed belts and preparing to take people.

Zhang Zizhong was not afraid at all, and resolutely said: "If you go back to the teacher's seat, you will be vulgar and rude, and your words will be inconsiderate. Today, when he heard that the commander of the division had arrested him, he was so anxious that he had come to implore the division to open up and be dealt with lightly. ”

Cheng Qian snorted coldly and said: "Joke, he Che Zhen is a lackey of the Yuan thief, a rebel minister in Beiyang, and the revolutionary object of our national defense movement, why should I arrest him, and why should I be open to such a person?" ”

Zhang Zizhong immediately replied loudly: "The teacher's words are wrong, as far as the humble position knows, the Yuan thief was restored, and the commander of the division did not participate. And sending troops to the south is only the proper duty of obeying orders, and it cannot be criminalized. On the contrary, after the commander of the division went south, he delayed a lot and did not actively fight. Moreover, in the matter of Hengyang that day, the lowly post was in front of the commander of the division, and all the officers advocated defection, but the commander of the division did not stop it, and at the same time ordered the old department of Shandong to cooperate. I don't know what happened to the revolution after doing this? If you can really investigate the truth and deal with it according to the truth, how can Master Che be imprisoned? ”

Zhang Zizhong saw Cheng Qian's disapproving appearance, and shouted loudly: "There is still a little worry about the humble position, today, the officers and soldiers of my former 39th Brigade are already members of the Youth Army, if the division cannot handle it impartially, I am afraid that the brothers will not accept this, please think twice." ”

Cheng Qian was furious when he heard this: "What do you mean, threaten me?" Do you still want to mutiny? Do you think that you are qualified to fight with your division if you bring a few soldiers? Someone! ”

Lu Diping had a good impression of Zhang Zizhong who was bent on rescuing his old master at this moment, so Cheng Qian was angry and shouted, and hurriedly stepped forward and said: "Brother Songyun, he is a young and backward person, and his words are fierce, why should you be angry?" ”

Cheng Qian then remembered that Lu Diping, the big celebrity in front of Wang Zhenyu, was still here, and seeing that the kid named Zhang Zizhong in front of him was so angry that he was angry, he hurriedly patted his head and said: "Brother Yong'an, you are also a person who leads soldiers, these soldiers and ruffians, if the thorn is not repaired in time, you know how troublesome it will be." ”

Lu Diping hurriedly waved his hand and said: "I have said it, I have said it, I want to see, they are just thinking about the old master, even if we can't fulfill their heart of repaying their kindness, there is no need to blame them, right?" ”

Although Cheng Qian looked down on Lu Diping, a rising man in the Hunan Army (when Cheng Qian became the boss of the Hunan Army, Lu Diping was just a regiment commander of the Fourth Division of the Hunan Army), but he didn't dare to offend him at the moment, and if he still expected to develop in the youth army system in the future, he had to win over this person. So Cheng Qian could only endure and said, "What do you mean, brother Yong'an?" ”

Lu Diping smiled, knowing that Cheng Qian was going to sell his face today, so naturally he didn't say anything polite: "Brother Song Yun may not know about the matter of Che Zhen, the errand of persuading him to surrender that day was handled by his brother." Although this old guy is a diehard and refuses to join us in opposing Yuan, he is indeed not a character who is determined to follow Lao Yuan to the black. So I thought, please ask Brother Songyun to spare him once and let him return to the north to retire on the day of the car earthquake. ”

Cheng Qian glanced at Lu Diping, thinking that this Che Zhen actually couldn't become a climate, and most of his troops were also assigned to Lu Diping, so he really couldn't turn his face with Lu Diping for this matter: "This matter is easy to say, since Brother Yong'an can prove this son, I think this son is indeed not Lao Yuan's dead friend, so naturally he will not die of a crime, and I will let the adjutant release him later." ”

After speaking, Cheng Qian subconsciously looked at Zhang Zizhong and the others who were still standing there expressionlessly, and before he could speak, he heard Lu Diping say again: "As for these six people, Brother Song Yun, they will be assigned to the command of the junior brother, and you know that what I lack now is an officer." ”

Cheng Qian smiled bitterly: "Okay, as long as you think these thorns are not troublesome, you can take them, I have no opinion." ”

Lu Diping immediately thanked him, and Zhang Zizhong and others originally came with the determination to die, but they met Lu Diping such a noble person, and as a result, not only the teacher was released, but he also got a future, among which Zhang Zizhong was appointed by Lu Diping as the commander of the first battalion of the 111 Regiment, and in the subsequent decisive battle, this appointment was considered by Lu Diping to be the most proud appointment in his personal military career......