003 Banditry
The pressure of Shanghai has been transferred to Nanjing step by step, these days there are a large number of people packing up their luggage and rushing to the river to flee to the interior to run back, the people of Suzhou and other places have also gathered in Nanjing, the Nanjing-Shanghai railway line is full of refugees who pick up cars, for a time, Nanjing City is overcrowded, and the river wharf is even more crowded.
These circumstances have made it difficult for Yu Feipeng, the minister of logistics and munitions, because there are too many people who have run against them, which has affected the movement of munitions and delayed the war on the front line, which is a big problem.
Fighting a war is not only about fighting a war, but also about logistics and equipment. As soon as the so-called cannon sounded, the golden tael also had this meaning. What's more, the Japanese Navy and Air Force have recently intensified their attacks on the Yangtze River, and the deliberate sinking of ships in order to prevent Japan from going up the river has also affected the waterway a lot, resulting in a lot of reduction in the shipping that was originally an important support before the war, and the only thing that can be counted on is the railway.
Fortunately, when Huang Ke grasped the construction of railways, he built a lot of railways throughout the country, and now in addition to the southwest region, there are train lines in large cities across the country.
However, there have been many problems during this time, and the people who run against the road often pick up the trains, but those are empty cars that drive to the back, and they will pick up; But recently, in Zhengzhou and Xuzhou, there have been many gangs that robbed military trains.
The common people pay attention to relying on the mountains to eat the mountains and the water to eat the water, which depends on the train track and can't be hungry? What's more, the war against Japan has destroyed a lot of economic order, and in addition, some localities have forcibly requisitioned military rations, resulting in a large number of ordinary people having no food to eat, so many people have become bandits.
Relying on the line to eat the line, the railway between Xi'an and the eastern region is very busy, and it is naturally a piece of fat that these people are eyeing for. To this end, the logistics and munitions department has done a lot of work, in addition to strengthening the garrison, but also with the Henan Provincial Government to organize many times to suppress bandits, but this bandit has been suppressed, that bandit is there again, the railway line is their supply line, lack of money, lack of artillery and lack of food, they all go to rob, so often you just finished this wave, and the next wave grows up in the blink of an eye.
In order to prevent these bandits from grabbing guns, the military train transported the guns and firing pins separately, but this also made it difficult for people, and the bandits sometimes aimed at the opportunity to rob two military trains, so that they had everything.
These things once made Huang Ke angry, and he ordered Tang Enbo, the governor of the Henan Provincial Garrison, to suppress the bandits, but Tang Enbo's results were unsatisfactory, and it was always impossible to suppress them. Yu Feipeng didn't count on Tang Enbo, he transferred troops from the logistics department to strengthen the military columns, although it cost a lot of manpower and material resources, but also received some results, there is no other way.
Yu Feipeng rubbed his head when he thought of this, a few days ago, another military column with guns and cannons was attacked on the road again, and the location of the attack was in the central part of Henan, not far from the Gongxian Arsenal.
Although there is no loss of anything of great value, that is, a few boxes of fast guns and bullets, after all, it will damage the image, and if it continues like this, they will not be able to grab the big one day?
Yu Feipeng is in charge of logistics and military quarters, and he is extremely good at these.
After reading this report, he simply reviewed it, there was no way, there were too many of these things, and he didn't have much energy to care about it every day.
After the review, Yu Feipeng pressed the rattle on the table and asked the secretary to come in.
The secretary pushed the door in, and he pointed to the slip he had just approved and said, "Go and send this out." ”
The secretary took the approved paper and said "yes", and asked politely, "Does the chief have any other orders?" ”
"It's gone!" Yu Feipeng continued to bury his head in reviewing the copy.
"Wait." As soon as the secretary walked to the door, Yu Feipeng called him again, he stood up and said, "Call Zhang Xianmin from the garrison department." ”
"Yes!" The secretary turned and walked out, and a few moments later, a colonel in a crisp military uniform walked in. As soon as he entered, he stood up and saluted, and then asked; "Sir, are you looking for me?"
"Hmm." Yu Feipeng handed him a document on the table and said, "How are the guards of this military train arranged?" ”
Zhang Xianmin took a look, it was a blue steel express military train sent from Shaanxi, and there was no need to think that what was carried must be all kinds of weapons and equipment urgently needed on the front line produced by the Shaanxi Branch of Jiangnan Heavy Industry and the Gongxian Arsenal.
Zhang Xianmin knew that according to this kind of military column in the past, it was generally a reinforced platoon guard. He replied casually: "I haven't asked about the military rank in detail this time, but it should be a reinforced platoon guard from Shaanxi." ”
Yu Feipeng stood up, paced back and forth, and said, "You go and ask, this military column will increase the level of guards." ”
Zhang Xianmin frowned and said, "The guards of a reinforced platoon have already occupied a carriage, and if they are added, I am afraid they will occupy a little more." In addition, the military trains rarely stopped along the way, and they had to bring supplies and everything, which would also increase the burden on the military trains. ”
"There is no need to increase the number of carriages, increase the guard to a reinforced company, allocate more to each carriage, occupy only one carriage, squeeze it. These are minor issues, and it's important to make sure that this trip is foolproof. ”
"Okay sir, I'll go down and make arrangements," Zhang Xianmin turned around and went down. After the people left, Yu Feipeng picked up the red special line in front of him and asked for the special line of Defense Minister Huang Ke.
The call was answered by Chen Liewen, Huang Ke's confidential secretary. Since Fu Jin left Huang Ke, Huang Ke has always been fourteen boys by his side. This guy is impeccable in life arrangements and security work, but in some specific business it seems a little stretched, after all, Fourteen Tsai is not deeply educated, and the matter of lifting a pen and writing is really inaccurate.
In the early stage, Huang Ke's affairs were all done by the secretary class of the Ministry of National Defense, so Huang Ke did not matter which person alone, so Fourteen Tsai and the eight bodyguards he chose became the closest people to Huang Ke.
However, in order to prevent these people from doing illegal and undisciplined things in their own name, Huang Ke put forward strict requirements to the guard battalion not to disclose their positions.
But the guards who play with guns are not secretaries who play with a pen after all, especially after the war enters a stalemate, Huang Ke needs to deal with a mountain of military affairs, so Huang Ke needs a secretary who understands military business and is honest in style. Chen Liewen stood out among the crowds.
Chen Liewen was born in a scholarly family in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, graduated from St. John's University and the Central Military Academy successively, is extremely proficient in military business, and at the same time is familiar with many Chinese, has systematically studied military command, logistics, personnel and other aspects of knowledge, is very skilled in business, after graduation, assigned to the Ministry of National Defense Confidential Section as a captain to sort out documents.
But these are not the reasons why Huang Ke chose him, Huang Ke chose him because he heard that this person is very incorruptible. At that time, the officers of the Confidential Section were all uniformly arranged in the officers' quarters, although it was an officer's dormitory, but the conditions could only be a small room of a few square meters per person, and this regulation was originally intended to ensure the lives of the officers, so it was not forced, and those who had money in the family had already gone out to rent or buy a set in Nanjing.
Although Chen Liewen was born in a scholarly family, the Jiangsu-Zhejiang War also made this well-off family unable to make ends meet, and his monthly income would also be used to help the family. But officialdom is always unavoidable, especially in the capital where high-ranking officials are like forests. Therefore, these officers who are assigned to serve in the Ministry of Defense will receive various invitations every once in a while.
Most of these invitations are the reason for the bosses to collect money, and for those students with good family backgrounds, this money is nothing, but it is a big expense for Chen Liewen. At first, he was barely able to go to the school a few times, but the more people opened up, the more pressure grew.
In the end, Chen Liewen simply hung a note in front of his room, saying, "All banquets, no appointments." After this note was hung out, Chen Liewen was well-known in the Ministry of National Defense, and he also suffered a lot because of this, first he was transferred to the boiler tube for tea supply, and then the monthly subsidy was reduced by half, and Chen Liewen was also frustrated and annoyed by this.
coincided with the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War, Chen Liewen wrote a letter of self-recommendation many times, asking to go to the front line to kill the enemy, but in fact, he did not want to be calculated in this organ, but it was better to be shrouded in horse leather.
As a result, Chen Liewen's letter was successfully approved, and these people wished that this plague god would leave their eyes, so he recommended himself, so the people in the personnel department were ready to transfer him to the front line in Shanghai.
But just when the list of those who were transferred to the front line was reported, Yang Yibing noticed this person. Although it is said that the Reserve Cadre Department and the Ministry of National Defense belong to two institutions, Yang Yibing is still a lieutenant general established by the Ministry of National Defense after all, so he can also intervene in personnel.
Yang Yibing collects intelligence both inside and outside, including various personnel of the Ministry of National Defense, and he will know about this matter as long as he collects a little. After hearing this, Yang Yibing thought of his past life experience, he was somewhat similar to this Chen Liewen, but such a person could not be mixed in the officialdom.
Thinking of this, Yang Yibing inspected him, and after inspecting and confirming this person's character and ability, he inadvertently recommended it to Huang Ke.
After Chen Liewen entered the secretary class of the Ministry of National Defense, his performance was outstanding, and Huang Ke transferred him to his side as a confidential secretary.
The prime minister's former nine-rank official, although Yu Feipeng is a national first-class general, he still maintains a certain amount of politeness to Chen Liewen, so after hearing that Huang Ke is not there, he repeatedly told Chen Liewen that after Huang Ke comes back, he must tell himself that he will personally go to Huang Ke to report this matter.
Chen Liewen knew that it was powerful, and when he promised, Huang Ke came back.