After moving about two kilometers, the long marching procession suddenly stopped, and Xiao Gan, who was in the middle of the team, saw a commotion in front of the team, thinking that the carriage transporting the wounded had overturned, and scolded in a low voice and immediately stepped forward, and several brigade commanders behind him shouted a few words to the rear, and also rode their horses and ran forward one after another to see what was going on.

At the front of the line, the 18 officers and soldiers who had stopped advancing looked at the three cars and hundreds of carriages of all sizes neatly arranged in front of them, and they were all stunned, and they all gathered around and pointed and discussed, guessing whether they were here to pick up their team.

Luo Zhuoying and Zhou Zhirou quickly rode their horses to the front of the team, and before they could see clearly the officers and soldiers in front of the car and carriage, a tall young officer wearing the gray colonel uniform of the Zhejiang Army had already strode up, followed by eight captains running in a neat queue.

The young colonel officer stood three meters in front of Luo Zhuoying's horse's head, saluted upright, and reported loudly: "Following the order of the superiors, Wu Ming, the commander of the Fifth Regiment of the Second Division of Zhejiang Security, led the officers of the whole regiment to greet the officers and men of the 18th Army here, and the Changshan Barracks of the 5th Regiment has prepared meals for 14,000 soldiers, vacated enough barracks and tents to accommodate them, and warmly welcomed the arrival of the brothers of the 18th Army!" ”

"Due to the limited conditions, we can only mobilize one official car, two ambulances and one hundred and forty-three horse-drawn carriages to meet us.

Luo Zhuoying was extremely shocked, turned over and dismounted and ran up a few steps, saluted, and grabbed Wu Ming's outstretched hands in advance: "I am Luo Zhuoying, deputy commander of the 18th Army, I have long admired the name of the head of the Wu regiment, but I didn't have a chance to see it, Xie Ding...... Thank you! ”

Wu Ming said with a smile: "The general is polite, do you think you will arrange for the wounded and sick to get on the bus first?" More than 80 doctors and nurses from the hospital of our security forces and the Quzhou Church Hospital, and the affiliated hospital of the Changshan barracks were also prepared for treatment, complete medicines, and X-ray machines were also brought in. ”

Luo Zhuoying's eyes suddenly flushed, and he was so moved that he couldn't speak, Zhou Zhirou behind him strode forward and stretched out his hands, and shook Wu Ming's outstretched hand tightly: "I, Zhou Zhirou of the Fourteenth Division, Xie Lu and Commander Wu, are so affectionate and friendly, my brothers in the Eighteenth Army will remember it in my heart!" ”

"General Zhou's words are serious, you are the big brother in the army, we are the little brothers, the family does not speak two words, not to mention that General Cixiu has always been a general whom I deeply respect, General Zhou and many of the brothers of the Eighteenth Army are my sons and daughters of Zhejiang, even if they are not sons of Zhejiang, they are also brothers in the trenches, they are connected by blood, and it is incumbent on them!" Wu Ming replied humbly.

Zhou Zhirou was even more moved, holding Wu Ming's hand tightly and shaking it again and again: "I really didn't expect that there would be such true feelings in tribulation, I ......"

"You're welcome, General! Tonight, the younger brother will pick up the wind and wash the dust for the generals, and I will talk about it when there is anything. ”

Wu Ming interrupted Zhou Zhirou's emotion and pointed to the brothers of the Eighteenth Army who began to be confused: "Let's sort out the team first...... The younger brother also had to talk to the doctors, and give priority to sending the injured and sick brothers to Changshan, and then there were still 18 kilometers to go, and strive to get back to the camp within four hours, otherwise it would be inconvenient to get dark. ”

Zhou Zhirou and Luo Zhuoying hurriedly nodded, turned around and issued an order to the generals who arrived in droves, asking all departments to rest in place and not to move, and to send the injured and sick brothers to the front first.

After more than half an hour of busyness, more than 400 seriously wounded were picked up one after another, and the brothers of the 18th Army were lifted by the news of the favorable reception, and soon completed the procession, and under the leadership of their respective commanders, accelerated their advance towards Changshan.

On the way back, Wu Ming rode a horse and walked side by side with Luo Zhuoying and Zhou Zhirou, and the three of them who met for the first time talked for only ten minutes, and they soon became familiar with each other, and their goodwill for each other increased dramatically.

Xiao Gan, Huang Wei and others, who followed behind, had a good impression of Wu Ming, who personally led the spies to attack the enemy's headquarters overnight, and then used clever tricks to completely bring all the brothers under his command out of the heavy encirclement.

No one expected that Wu Ming, who was known as the "Tiger General" in the army, looked so handsome, spoke so elegantly and gently, and had such a humble and frank attitude, so everyone sighed along the way, and thanked Wu Ming at the same time, but also thanked Wu Ming's boss, Whampoa's classmates Yu Jishi and Chen Shizheng.

When the whole army marched into the barracks at the southern foot of Zhanyi Mountain in the north of Changshan City, it was already 8:20 p.m., and the lights were as bright as daytime at the gate of the barracks, and the officers and men of a company of the security regiment lined up to welcome them.

Entering the gate of the barracks, a six-meter-wide smooth cement pavement extends straight inward, there is a flower bed seventy meters ahead, in the center of the flower bed stands a statue of a soldier holding a battle flag and charging forward, and there is also a banner on the pedestal of three meters high and five meters wide, which reads two sentences that made Luo Zhuoying and countless soldiers of the Eighteenth Army cry quietly when they saw it: "Heroic brothers of the Eighteenth Army, you have worked hard all the way!" ”

Under the guidance of the officers and men of Wu Ming's regiment, more than 9,000 officers and men of the 18th Army lived in spacious, bright, and well-equipped barracks, and then arranged for bathing and changing clothes.

Soon, hundreds of officers and soldiers of the Fifth Regiment delivered buckets of fragrant rice, bone broth, and large pots of vegetables to the front of the barracks.

On the rear playground of the regimental hospital, a neat row of military tents has been erected, and more than 400 wounded and sick have all been properly accommodated; nearly 100 doctors and nurses, including six foreign doctors, have been busy all the time; 14 seriously wounded are undergoing surgery at the same time; there are also more than 20 young medical soldiers who are using disinfectant to clean the wounded and festering; and a group of young soldiers who are only about 15 years old but wearing decent military uniforms are running back and forth between the hospital in front and the tent wards in the back, delivering water and medicine, and passing on news.

Luo Zhuoying, who was full of gratitude, and more than ten other generals finally walked out of the back door of the hospital and came to the empty playground to thank Wu Ming again.

Wu Ming just shook his head slightly with a humble smile, and at the request of Zhou Zhirou, he pointed to the boy scout who entered the back door of the hospital with a load of hot water and introduced:

"There are a total of 50 children, most of them orphans who were displaced to Zhejiang because of the Central Plains War and the Luyu flood, and more than a dozen of them are local villagers...... When the younger brother first arrived in Hangzhou, he saw that they had no one to take care of him and bought them back, and there were more than 200 children like this, all of whom were sent to Maoliangwu in the northern mountains to study, and only last year did they select 50 people who could basically write and calculate to form a scout, and they studied and trained in the army, and it is estimated that it will take three years to grow up. ”

Zhou Zhirou, Luo Zhuoying and others looked at each other, feeling incredible.

Huang Wei on the side hurriedly asked: "This is simply a junior military school, what do these children learn?" ”

Wu Ming said truthfully: "The first stage of learning language, arithmetic, military history and military law and military orders, training is the simplest military basic training, they have completed, and now they are in the second stage, cultural learning is arithmetic, geometry, surveying and mapping foundation and ideological and moral cultivation, training subjects are basic surveying and mapping mapping, shooting, firearms maintenance, bomb throwing, mine-planting, mortar basic operation and logistics and military management, this stage takes two years, after two years, according to the characteristics and wishes of each person, divided into a number of majors, Entered the military for one year of probation. ”

Everyone looked at Wu Ming in disbelief, and almost asked the words "is it possible".

Wu Ming didn't care whether they believed it or not, Ha Luha smiled and invited everyone to go to the regiment headquarters, take a bath first and then eat, he and the battalion and company commanders of the fifth regiment all wanted to salute the big brothers, and couldn't help but say after speaking, holding Luo Zhuoying with one hand and Zhou Zhirou with the other, strode towards the courtyard on the north side of the playground, Long Shaogang, Zhang Dongning and others also warmly invited other generals to go together.