Out of the wide pier, turning the east side of a hill with five or six thick fortresses built above and below, there was a sudden exclamation from the crowd.

Liu Rulin looked up, was stunned, and grabbed Fang Youchun beside him and asked, "Is this ...... Is this still a town in a remote mountainous area? ”

Fang Youchun glanced at the town in front of him, which was bigger and cleaner than Changshan County, and sighed in a low voice: "When I came here on May 1st, I felt exactly the same as you do now, and the officials at all levels who came with me said that everything they saw was like a dream......

"To be honest, I don't know how the people of Maoliangwu in Ludao did all this, but I know that Ludao, a town with more than 11,500 people, is more beautiful than all the counties I have seen, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a source outside the world."

Wu Ming didn't give everyone much time to marvel, and pointed to the wide cement parking lot in front of him: "Please get in the car, this place is still two kilometers away from the hospital in the east, and if everyone goes to visit the wounded, they need to run back and forth a few times." ”

Zhou Zhirou and others came to the neatly parked two Dodge cars and three Chevrolet two-ton trucks that were only shipped to China for sale this year, discussed a few words, and smiled at Wu Ming:

"The others can stay here to rest, you can take the three of us and Director Liu and Commissioner Fang to go, followed by the members of the accident investigation team, they are carrying a lot of equipment, and we will come back and go directly to the accident site later, and strive to complete the investigation before the sun goes down."

Wu Ming didn't have any opinions, and asked the others to sit in the three cars respectively, and he and Zhou Zhirou got into the front car, and after driving, Wu Ming asked with a smile: "Brother, where are the two guys who follow your ass sacred?" It looks like I'm here to stir up trouble......"

Zhou Zhirou introduced with a smile: "The short man is Chen Qingyun, deputy director of the Aviation Committee, who was transferred from the navy and once served as Mr. Zhongshan's attendant military attaché, and his qualifications are relatively old. The young one is the new director of education of our aviation school, Jiang Jianren, who graduated from the fourth phase of Huangpu, is a Fenghua person, and a beloved general who is entrusted. ”

Wu Ming suddenly realized: "No wonder it's so awesome, it turns out that they all have capital." ”

"Of course, Zhilu Dao has touched hard stubble, right? You guy's bullish temper has to be changed, otherwise it will be difficult to get promoted in the future...... I talked to you about you in Nanjing last month, and I regretted that you could not enter the second batch of Quanxu list this year, and he said that he would have a good talk with you after this busy time, and he couldn't let you continue to spend time in western Zhejiang. Zhou Zhirou said with a smile.

Wu Ming didn't care whether he could be promoted to major general at all, it was only real to keep his foundation and the troops in his hands, so he hurried up and asked Zhou Zhirou: "How should the following itinerary be arranged?" ”

Zhou Zhirou thought for a while: "I have already said just now, after visiting the two injured brothers, I will go to the crash site to investigate on the spot, stay for one night at night, and definitely have a meeting, and then report the situation to the committee and the aviation committee...... The committee is very concerned about this accident, but fortunately, no one died, and I didn't have so much pressure on me. ”

Wu Ming nodded: "That's it, I'll arrange for you to live in the town office at night, the conditions are good, if it's not enough, I'll ask someone to take a dozen tents to the courtyard of the town office to prop up, the scenery of that place is good, it's very convenient to eat or something, and it's very cool at night now, there are no mosquitoes." ”

"Stop"

Zhou Zhirou stared at Wu Ming puzzled: "Why don't you be a little crisper and arrange for us to live in your Phoenix Mountain base?" I've heard that your Phoenix Mountain base is first-class in terms of barracks facilities and surrounding environment, comparable to a holiday garden."

Wu Ming reluctantly explained: "Because we will start a live-fire confrontation exercise tomorrow... The younger brother has been preparing for this exercise for two years, so it can't be ambiguous, and idle people are not allowed to enter, if it's just the elder brother or with a confidant, the elder brother just doesn't want to go and the younger brother has to drag you hard, but today there are so many people so mixed, what do you let me do? ”

Zhou Zhirou smiled with relief: "There is a drill? Ha Luha, with such a good thing, I naturally want to go...... You don't want to throw me in the town, no matter how beautiful the town is, I don't want to live, I will live in your barracks tonight, I don't believe you dare to drive me away"

Wu Ming was out of choice now, shook his head and compromised: "Since this is the case, the younger brother will not accompany you to the crash site later, go back to the base and make good arrangements, so that the elder brother can live more comfortably." ”

"No, no, you have to accompany me to the scene of the accident, I don't feel at ease when others accompany me." Zhou Zhi is so soft that he can make inches.

Wu Ming frowned, turned his head sideways and stared at Zhou Zhirou for a while: "Something is wrong, I said that you won't have homosexual tendencies, right?" ”

"What homosexual tendencies?" Zhou Zhirou didn't react for a while.

Wu Ming was dumbfounded, so he had to talk about the plane again: "Isn't it just an old-fashioned Northrop plane that was finalized and produced four years ago?" The Yankees' aircraft was originally a two-seater attack aircraft, and it also dismantled the radio and advanced optical sighting equipment, enlarged the fuel tank, removed two 12.7 caliber aviation machine guns, and installed a slide rail on the belly of the plane, and installed a bomb-throwing rack, and lied to you without blushing that it was a newly developed light bomber, and you even believed it, and you bought back 20 at a time, and 25 were bought back and assembled by yourself, right? I don't even have the interest to take a look at this kind of plane, and the wreckage is also at the accident site. Do you have to drag me? ”

Zhou Zhirou was shocked: "How do you understand airplanes?" ”

Wu Ming pursed his mouth: "What's so strange about this?" When I get back, I will give you the aviation magazines that Father Raymond helped me get from the United States in the past two years, which not only list the pictures, models, and detailed parameters of American fighters, but also the fighters of European countries. ”

Zhou Zhirou was speechless for a moment, fortunately, the hospital had arrived, otherwise I really didn't know how to talk to Wu Ming.

Accompanied by Wu Ming, the investigation of the crash site proceeded smoothly.

With the help of the militia brothers, dozens of members of the investigation team hastily formed from various departments quickly completed the work of taking pictures of the scene and collecting the wreckage of the plane, a 12.7 mm machine gun and four 7.92 mm machine guns that were badly deformed were neatly placed on the grass at the bottom of the mountain, and the wreckage of the fuselage was also collected together as much as possible, which looked a bit like a grocery stall at a glance.

Until now, Jiang Jianren, the director of education of the Central Aviation School, has not had the opportunity to say a word to Wu Ming.

After riding horses to this place together, Wu Ming instructed more than 100 members of the local militia group to fully cooperate with the work of the guests, and then squatted under the big tree by the stream to smoke and chat, leaving the accident investigation team to themselves.

Jiang Jianren was quite annoyed when he saw this, but the investigation was carried out smoothly, and Jiang Jianren had no reason to complain about Wu Ming, so he had to complain to Zhou Zhirou, who was sweating profusely: "Isn't this Wu Ming a colonel and brigade commander of a new brigade?" How can you be so arrogant? ”

Zhou Zhirou thought for a while, approached Jiang Jianren and whispered:

"Actually, he is very good, if he becomes a friend, he is very righteous, and the most important thing is that he has real skills, and he personally wrote the preface to the "Law on the Construction of Fortifications and Fortresses" written by him...... This book, together with the two military textbooks he compiled three years ago, has been listed as a compulsory textbook by the Central Military Academy, and the methods of building various fortifications and fortresses created by him have been popularized in all divisions and brigades of the Central Army a year ago. ”

"Yu Liangzhen and my old commander, General Cixiu and others, were his superiors, fought together on the battlefield in southern Jiangxi, had a very deep friendship with him, admired his military talent very much, and exchanged letters with each other, if he was not willing to leave western Zhejiang, I am afraid that he would have been the commander of the main division."

Jiang Jian was stunned: "Why do such people stay in this place? ”

"I don't understand, I'm trying to ask him tonight." Zhou Zhirou said with a smile.

Before the sun went down, the on-site investigation was over, and Zhou Zhirou, Liu Rulin, and Fang Youchun didn't care whether Wu Ming agreed or not, they got together to discuss for a while and make a decision:

In order not to trouble the people in the town too much, only more than 50 local government officials were left to live in the guest house of the town office, a rescue team composed of more than 10 military doctors was admitted to the affiliated hospital where the wounded were located, and the rest were all admitted to the Fenghuangshan training base, where there were perfect barracks and radio communication facilities to facilitate communication with Nanjing and Hangzhou.

On the way back to the town, the mood of the group was much lighter, and many people began to notice that the horses under their crotches were tall and strong, unusually powerful, and looked very valuable.

Liu Rulin and others asked the leader of the militia group who accompanied him to know that there is a horse farm in the southeast of the town, which has kept more than 300 stallions for a long time, and now everyone rides more than 200 horses between two and a half years old, and it is a dozen Arab stallions introduced through Shanghai Ocean Travel four years ago, and the offspring born after crossing with the Mongolian horses of Liaoxi, the number of specially bred Arabian thoroughbred horses is not much, and there are more than a dozen ponies every year, and they are sold when they are one and a half years old, and most of the buyers are famous and wealthy gentry from Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Jiangxi. The price of a thoroughbred horse can cover the cost of a horse farm for half a year.

After listening to this, Liu Rulin, who loves war horses, didn't say a word, hit the horse close to Wu Ming, and asked in a low voice that he must give him a purebred Arabian horse, how much does it cost, just ask.

Wu Ming didn't speak, and when he saw that Liu Rulin was anxious, he told him: "The two little guys who are specially for you and Brother Ma, as well as my little nephew, have left a horse...... Originally, I also planned to send it to Hangzhou as a gift for a few little ones during the Chinese New Year, since you are so anxious, you will bring it when you go back tomorrow."

"But I have to warn you, although the Arabian pony is tall, they are only seventeen months old, and they need to be well bred and trained slowly when they go back, and they can't be overused."

Liu Rulin was overjoyed, Xie Lu Xie didn't say a word, reined in the horse and waited for Fang Youchun behind him to come up, leaning up and whispering. Fang Youchun raised his head and looked at Wu Ming in front of him, but he still shook his head and sighed helplessly.