The next morning, the little maid who slept in the old lady's room for half the night returned to the west courtyard in a daze, and saw her uncle Wu Ming boxing under the big tree in the yard, she couldn't help but be startled, and quickly lowered her head, turned into the corridor with broken steps, sneaked into Fang Zhichun's bedroom, and ran to the wide bed in a hurry to check carefully, and was shocked to see that her young lady was sleeping very sweetly, her face was red, and there was a little smile on the corner of her mouth, and she couldn't help but be crazy for a while.

Wu Ming had already seen the figure of the little girl, but he didn't know the mind of the little girl, but he didn't care, and he beat a set of Taoist secret techniques five elements and thirteen styles of boxing back and forth, and he only felt that his spirit was full of energy, and he obviously felt that his skills had improved a lot.

Wiping away the sweat, Wu Ming paced slowly in the yard, breathing in the fresh air with a slight fragrance of flowers, listening to the singing of birds in the treetops, and couldn't help but sigh: "It's better to be at home!" ”

A burst of laughter came from outside the arched courtyard gate, and Wu Ming didn't need to look to know that it was Zhang Dongning who came, and greeted him and asked, "What?" Don't go back to see your little daughter-in-law?

"It's useless to go back, it's hard to make people anxious with a big belly." Zhang Dongning is not subtle in front of Wu Ming.

Wu Mingha smiled: "You deserve it!" Ha Luha, came early in the morning, something? ”

Zhang Dongning nodded: "I received a notice from the Provincial Security Department that the Eighteenth Army will pass through our Changshan tomorrow, stop for a while and continue to Quzhou to rest and replenish, requiring us to cook meals and ensure safety along the way." Deputy Head Long asked me to ask you, according to what standard of hospitality? ”

Wu Ming thought about it for a long time: "According to the highest standards!" ”

Zhang Dongning was taken aback: "The highest standard? Although the two divisions of the Eighteenth Army lost the battle and suffered heavy losses, there were 14,000 people, not to mention anything else, just according to one pig for 100 people, it would cost 140 pigs! ”

Wu Ming said very seriously:

"General Chen Cheng is one of the commanders I respect...... Long before participating in the encirclement and suppression of the Red Army, General Chen Cheng felt that the land division had won the support of the people, and keenly discovered that land had become a huge social contradiction at present, so he wrote a proposal and handed it to the Central Committee and Chairman Chiang, analyzed the current situation in detail, and proposed that the government should redeem the land from the big landlords and distribute it to the landless people to resolve the social contradictions. The Kuomintang's policy of having the land for the cultivators, originally proposed by Dr. Sun Yat-sen, is still a picture of the pie today.

"Secondly, we can't simply put the responsibility for the defeat of this encirclement and suppression operation on General Chen Cheng, if it weren't for the fact that the princes of all walks of life supported their troops and held back their feet, if it weren't for the commanders of all divisions who should not advance or retreat, and repeatedly violated or delayed the implementation of General Chen Cheng's orders, where would they have fallen to today's step?"

In the previous paragraph, Xiong Shihui and his party took advantage of this defeat to violently attack General Chen Cheng, demanding that the commission remove General Chen Cheng from all his positions and disband the 18th Army...... Isn't such a person worthy of your and me's respect? ”

Zhang Dongning was moved when he heard this: "I understand, let's go and prepare!" ”

"Add ten catties of fish for every 100 people, plus bone broth, enough wine, cook rice with the best rice, serve the best condiments, and then call Steve, who returned to Quzhou Hospital, and ask him to bring enough medicine and as many doctors as possible, and it is best to invite the surgical experts in the hospital. After the last day, he instructed all the brothers in the camp to clean the barracks, vacate the house, leave the brothers of the 18th Army to rest for a day, write some warm slogans, and put up a welcome banner, so that the brothers of the 18th Army would have a feeling of returning home. Wu Ming instructed carefully.

"Yes!"

Zhang Dongning immediately went to do it.

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At three o'clock in the afternoon, the sun gradually turns westward, the mountains in the upper reaches of the Xinjiang River are verdant, a few leisurely white clouds occasionally float on the top of the mountain in the east, the two sides of the highway stretch out, the water is murmuring, and the full of grass seedlings are blowing in the wind, like the green waves that are slowly surging up and down.

More than 9,400 officers and men of the Central Committee lined up in a five-mile procession, like a long snake that had just thawed, slowly wriggling from west to east along the winding highway.

In the middle of the silent marching procession, there were horses in twos and threes and more than 50 carriages full of wounded people, and everywhere you could see wounded soldiers with gauze wrapped in their heads and walking with crutches in their hands.

At the end of the road to the east, a fast horse swept past the officers and men who were either dejected or numb, and rushed to the middle of the group at great speed.

More than ten meters away from the war horse walking slowly in front, the lieutenant immediately reined in the war horse and turned down, strode to the front of the tall jujube red horse, and reported loudly to the general on the horse:

"Report to the deputy commander, the outpost is five kilometers ahead, and when I met the patrol horse team at the Baishi checkpoint of the Fifth Regiment of the Zhejiang Army, the battalion commander of the other party took the initiative to meet him, introduced himself as Yang Sixian, and asked if we were General Chen Cheng's Eighteenth Army? The subordinates told the truth, and the other party immediately sent someone back to report, and at the same time told the subordinates that their regiment commander had been waiting at the Baishi checkpoint for a long time and would come to visit immediately. ”

Luo Zhuoying, the deputy commander of the 18th Army, who was covered with dust, was very surprised, ordered the lieutenant to continue the investigation, stopped his horse after a moment of contemplation, and asked Xiao Qian, the new commander of the 11th Division, who was on horseback: "Does the Fifth Security Regiment of Western Zhejiang belong to the direct jurisdiction of the Zhejiang Provincial Security Department, or does it belong to the Quzhou Administration?" ”

Xiao Qian, who was from Fujian, couldn't figure out the situation of the Zhejiang army, so he had to turn his head and ask Zhou Zhirou, the commander of the 14th Division in the rear: "Brother Baifu, you are familiar with the military and political circles in Zhejiang, do you say that the Fifth Security Regiment stationed in western Zhejiang is not a unit directly under the direct jurisdiction of Brother Liangzhen (Yu Jishi)?" ”

Zhou Zhirou, who is from Linhai, Taizhou, Zhejiang, slowly urged him to come immediately:

"I don't know this very well, western Zhejiang has always been the forefront of Zhejiang's suppression of the Communist Party, so the Quzhou Administration has always had about five regiments of security forces...... I heard the report just now, I am not familiar with the battalion commander named Yang Sixian, I guess they should be under the jurisdiction of the Quzhou Administration. ”

Luo Zhuoying glanced at the officers and soldiers under his command who slowly walked by him with numb and tired expressions, sighed, and said self-deprecatingly: "Our group of remnants of the defeated generals, from leaving Fuzhou to the present, have not been treated well, it would be good to have a bowl of dry rice to eat in Changshan, do you still expect people to set up wine and wait for us to drink?" ”

"Okay, let's go on, it is estimated that the security forces stationed in Changshan, western Zhejiang, received a notice from them to go up to the peak...... The fact that the regimental commander of the regiment can go to the border checkpoint to greet us remnants of the defeated soldiers is already considered to give us face - drive! ”

Xiao Qian looked at Luo Zhuoying silently and watched him move forward, and his heart couldn't help but feel a burst of sadness, the army commander Chen Cheng went to work, and the status of the Eighteenth Army plummeted, and their commander Chen Cheng became the target of the military and political circles, with the Minister of Military Affairs He Yingqin, the Nanchang camp real power figure Yang Yongtai, and the Jiangxi Governor Xiong Shihui The big men were not even willing to let the Eighteenth Army rest and replenish in Fuzhou or Shangrao, and they had to rush the demoralized and exhausted soldiers of the Eighteenth Army to Zhejiang to be comfortable, The scarred officers and men could only grit their teeth and march eastward with difficulty, and they did not even have the strength to vent their grievances, and the generals felt even more miserable in their hearts, profoundly realizing the ruthlessness of officialdom and the coldness of people's hearts.

Zhou Zhirou saw Xiao Qian, who was covered in dust, and smiled helplessly, beating a horse to catch up with Luo Zhuoying, who was in a lonely mood, and Huang Wei, Mo Youshuo, Huo Yuzhang, Li Jilan and other brigade commanders who had been unable to see their faces clearly behind him lowered their heads sadly, silently shook the reins, and moved forward.