On March 31, Gong Peng personally went to the garrison of the Fifth Division of the Hunan Army and gave a special banquet to the 12 officers of the Fifth Division, saying that he had something to ask for. And what these twelve officers have in common is that they personally participated in the killing of Jiao Dafeng and Chen Zuoxin.

In the eyes of these officers, Gong Peng and Gong Mazi were the leaders of a small ruffian in their own jurisdiction, and inviting them to dinner was just asking for help. Anyway, it was boring to stay in the barracks, and it had been almost half a year since the killing incident, and they hadn't seen what happened to them, so the initial uneasiness and worry had long been forgotten by them, so they naturally promised to go to the appointment on time. As for the place of the date, it was set in the private room on the second floor of the Tiantai Tea House.

Running to the defense zone of a friendly army to capture a friendly officer is undoubtedly a very special task, and the high risk and difficulty determine that the personnel responsible for the capture must not only be reliable, but also competent. Wang Zhenyu thought about it again and again, and decided to let Ma Xicheng and Zhao Dongsheng take more than 30 people from his guards to carry it out, asking them to act quickly and ruthlessly, and evacuate immediately after they succeeded.

After sending out the guards, Wang Zhenyu immediately summoned Yang Wangui, Song Xianfu, Xu Yuanquan, Hao Bing, Wan Yaohuang and others to the brigade headquarters for a meeting. After all, no one knows what the reaction of the fifth division Mei Xin will be, if she really wants to tear her face, she has to prepare for the fight in advance.

"Brigade commander, you have to be cautious, such a big move, all aspects are involved, the consequences will definitely be very serious" Deputy brigade commander Yang Wangui, who is usually obedient to everything, was the first to raise an objection today.

Chief of Staff Xu Yuanquan also frowned: "Brigade commander, there are five divisions in Changsha, let's suddenly take action against the officers under Mei Xin, what if it causes a strong backlash?" Also, are we going to work alone with the Fifth Division or with the entire Fourth Division? ”

Xu Yuanquan did not object, according to his understanding of Wang Zhenyu, he roughly guessed that it was useless to object, and the people in charge of arresting him were probably dispatched. Today's meeting is just to say hello, and if you have this thought, you might as well ask for clarification, so as to figure out whether there are any loopholes and remedy them as soon as possible.

Song Xianfu and Hao Bing didn't know what the situation was, but after half a year, they had become accustomed to resolutely carrying out all the brigade commander's orders, and they had the brigade commander severely criticize them the night before, so they didn't dare to bite the word.

Wan Yaohuang asked Wang Zhenyu what was the purpose of such a move?

Wang Zhenyu looked at the nervous appearance of these officers under him, thought about it, and decided to tell the truth. He told everyone present about the current predicament of the clan uncle and the news he learned from Zhao Hengti, and everyone was immediately surprised.

"Brigade Commander, are you saying that the Fourth Division, except for us, has already listened to Granny Tan, and Division Commander Wang has become a light pole?" Yang Wangui asked in surprise.

Xu Yuanquan was even more surprised, "No, brigade commander, you are a revolutionary hero, they actually beat your idea!?" What the hell are they trying to do?"

After listening to the truth, everyone was even more confused, you said everything I said......

Wang Zhenyu raised his hand, and the brigade headquarters suddenly fell silent, and everyone stopped talking and looked at Wang Zhenyu quietly. Consciously or unconsciously, Wang Zhenyu is now regarded by everyone as the core of the Tiger Brigade.

"I know that there are many things that people can't figure out and can't figure out. In fact, this is normal, just take the matter of Jiao Dudu and Chen Dudu being killed, I haven't figured it out at this point. However, none of this is important," Wang Zhenyu's voice suddenly rose, "The important thing at the moment is that if we don't make some moves, don't teach some people a good lesson, and don't let them know our strength, then our Tiger Brigade will become history." And I, and all of you here, have a future that ends here. ”

Wang Zhenyu stood up and walked around the table.

"From Hankou, to Nanjing, and then to Changsha, my brothers and I have come all the way, and I am very grateful, and I want to say xiexie to everyone here. Next, the brother who is afraid of leaving something, Wang will not blame you, let alone stop it, and I will also send a pen for the journey. But Wang is determined to take down the banner of the Tiger Brigade, and I will not allow any outsider to and pee on our brother's neck. ”

Wang Zhenyu pressed Xu Yuanquan's shoulders with both hands: "The Tiger Brigade is a collective, not my Wang Mou's, now we are strong and strong, but we have no solid backing, and it is not uncommon for others to make up their minds." But are we going to give it up if we are being targeted? Brothers, as long as the gun is in our hands, we cannot be soft eggs. ”

"We not only want to make things happen, but also make them bigger, and let those guys who are in high positions and feel good about themselves know that our Tiger Brigade is not easy to mess with" Wang Zhenyu was concise and to the point, and directly set the tone for the next action. Tell everyone here unmistakably that there is no need to discuss whether to do something or not, and everyone can just talk about how to do it.

Xu Yuanquan, Yang Wangui and others glanced at each other, and then everyone turned their eyes to Wang Zhenyu, who had just sat down, and said in unison after getting up: "I am willing to follow the brigade commander and go to the soup to fight the fire, and I will not give up." ”

Wang Zhenyu smiled, and his confidence was suddenly sufficient.

The next thing was easy to do, and after the ideological unification, everyone began to plan how to deal with the Fifth Division. Poor Mei Xin really couldn't imagine that a small brigade had just planned to eliminate one of her own divisions in such a grand manner, which was completely playing with snakes and swallowing elephants, whimsical.

Everyone is a professional soldier, and soon came up with a feasible plan, the first step is that Wan Yaohuang personally led the reconnaissance company in disguise to reconnoiter the station, number, and combat effectiveness of each unit of the Fifth Division.

At noon on the same day, Wan Yaohuang and others disguised themselves as foreign merchants and carried out reconnaissance in the area under the jurisdiction of the Fifth Division in the east of the city. With the cooperation of He Jian, Gong Peng and others, the deployment of the Fifth Division was basically clear to him.

Mei Xin's Fifth Division was formed on the basis of the 52nd Standard of the original Hunan New Army, because Changsha was completely controlled by the department at the beginning, so whether it was soldiers or equipment supplies, the department was once the most haode in the Hunan army.

The army was soon expanded from more than 2,000 to 9,000, and it also went to the area of Baoqing Province to suppress the rebellion of the diehards of Jiao and Chen.

But good days are always short-lived, when Wang Longzhong came back with the army of 7,000 tigers and wolves to aid the Hunan army, intimidated by the prestige of the department in Wuhan, Mei Xin, who was weak-hearted, actually stupidly chose to lead the troops to leave Changsha and hide in Xiangtan.

This made Tan Yanmin successfully play a salted fish and turn over, from a puppet governor to the real governor of Hunan.

When Mei Xin returned to Changsha with her men and horses, Lin Xiumei's division in Hengyang also drove into Changsha, plus the first division trained by Tan Yanmin Vituo Cheng Qian and the two divisions adapted from the Hunan Army to aid Hubei, Changsha changed from his Mei Xin's family to a situation where five divisions coexisted.

In order to maintain the army, Mei Xin had to deploy the four regiments under her command separately in the east of the city and raise their own salaries, so that the discipline of the army became a joke, and the people in the defense area were very dissatisfied with this.

The second is the serious political isolation, the result of the coexistence of the five divisions, Tan Yanmin is no longer at his mercy. This is still a trivial matter, after all, she still has the army in her hands, and Granny Tan doesn't dare to do anything to herself. But the other three divisions were hostile to themselves, and that really gave Mei Xin a headache. Gan Xindian can say that this person belongs to the wall grass type, Wang Longzhong is Chen Zuoxin's old subordinate, this is okay, after all, most of the strength in the hands of the commander of the fourth division was bought by Tan Yanhong, and he couldn't toss anything. But Lin Xiumei was enough to make him afraid, when Hunan was restored, Lin Xiumei was in Jiao, and Chen's staff was in charge. When Mei Xin mutinied, Lin Xiumei fled back to her hometown in Anfu County (now Linli) overnight, and then relied on the family's liliang to collect Jiao in the Hengyang area, Chen part of the old department, and pulled up a team. For the sake of stabilizing the overall situation, Tan Yanmin transferred the division to Changsha through Cheng Qian, and appointed Lin Xiumei as the commander of the second division of the Hunan Army.

Mei Xin now regrets her original behavior a little, if she doesn't kill Jiao and Chen, she is nothing more than not being promoted, and after killing someone, her situation is very embarrassing and dangerous, and if she is not careful, she may die without a place to be buried. One word, it's difficult!

On the night of March 31, Tiantai Teahouse in the east area of Changsha City. Gong Peng held a banquet here to invite the twelve officers of the Fifth Division of the Hunan Army, and everyone went back and forth, ate and drank, and talked about women. In short, it was very pleasant, and soon these officers and He Jian, Gong Peng, Ma Xicheng and others called themselves brothers, wine and meat brothers.

After three rounds of drinking, the officers began to boast of their feats as usual, in order to show their bravery. He Jian, who pretended to be Gong Peng's friend, Ma Xicheng listened while eating, and after roughly confirming that it was correct, Ma Xicheng got up and excused himself from the toilet.

As soon as he walked out of the private room, Ma Xicheng took out the cigarette distributed by the officer, lit one, took a puff, and thought of what a hero Jiao and Chen were as heroes, and they actually let these bastards who were not as good as pigs and dogs inside, what kind of heavenly reason is this? Ma Xicheng couldn't help but be a little angry, but he choked on himself, coughed a few times, and then nodded towards Zhao Dongsheng on the first floor.

Zhao Dongsheng immediately led someone upstairs with a shell gun, and then kicked the door and rushed into the private room......

On the first day of April in the first year of the Republic of China, April Fool's Day in the West, the headquarters of the Fifth Division of the Hunan Army.

"Divisional commander, something is wrong!" Mei Xin's chief of staff came to see Mei Xin early the next morning.

Mei Xin didn't wake up a little: "What's wrong?" ”

The chief of staff said: "I went down this morning to inspect and found that twelve officers were missing. ”

Mei Xin said, "I guess where I went to drink flower wine, it's not a big deal." ”

The chief of staff said: "Coincidentally, these twelve are the ones who got rid of Jiao Dafeng and Chen Zuoxin in the first place!" ”

Mei Xin immediately became alert when she heard this, his life experience told him that all coincidences were unfortunate in themselves, and there must be something wrong with this.

At this time, the adjutant ran in: "Oh no, division commander, it's not good"

"What's the panic in the early morning?" Mei Xin was furious.

The adjutant hurriedly closed his mouth, endured it and said, "The officer of our division asked people to be dragged to the Iron Buddha Temple at the north gate to be shot." ”

On the morning of April 1, through severe torture, Wang Zhenyu obtained the confession he wanted. Subsequently, Wang Zhenyu ordered the 12 captured murderers to be escorted to the Iron Buddha Temple at the North Gate to be executed, and the execution place was in front of the tailor shop where Chen Zuoxin was killed.

Suddenly the whole Changsha was in a sensation, and the poor tailor shop really couldn't continue to do business anymore, everyone said that the killing atmosphere here was too heavy, and the ghosts would not disperse.