In mid-November, the New Second Division quietly stopped recruiting recruits for half a year, and all 9,500 recruits were concentrated at the Phoenix Mountain training base.

After Chen Cheng and Zhou Zhirou solicited Wu Ming's opinions, they delivered 24 Bofors 75NN field guns, 80 Brandt 8lNN mortars imported from France, and a large number of artillery shells to the Changshan Barracks in three parts, and carefully selected two experienced artillery captains and 24 artillery scientists who graduated from the 10th phase of the Central Military Academy to join Wu Ming's new second division to enrich the artillery construction.

Wu Ming immediately expanded Tian Zhenggang's machine gun battalion into an independent regiment under the division, under the jurisdiction of an artillery battalion, a mortar battalion, and a support battalion composed of an infantry company, an engineer company, and a baggage company, and the number of officers and men in the regiment increased sharply to 2,100, and Tian Zhenggang was appointed lieutenant colonel and regiment commander.

Two captain instructors transferred from the 18th Army were also successfully promoted to the first rank. Among them, Chen Cheng's younger brother Chen Li served as the deputy head of the major, and Zhou Zhiping, a native of Linhai, Taizhou, Zhejiang, who graduated from the seventh artillery department of the Central Military Academy, served as the staff officer of the major

Since then, Wu Ming's new Second Division has reached a record 23,500 troops, which is basically the same size as a permanent Japanese division with a horse-pulling system, including 9,500 recruits who are undergoing recruit training at the Phoenix Mountain base, and the Phoenix Mountain Base Garrison Regiment formed by more than 2,400 old brothers who have served for more than four years and generally have well-known families.

For this reason, Maoliangwu Town specially built a large invalids community for these 2,400 old brothers along the foot of the mountain in the south of the Zhendong Field Hospital, and planned to build a large invalids community before the arrival of the Spring Festival, so that they could defend their homes wholeheartedly like the fathers and villagers of Maoliangwu.

Since 1 December, the garrison regiment, which is directly under the leadership of the Fenghuangshan training base, has shouldered the heavy task of inspecting all outposts, communication lines, fire prevention and theft prevention, and anti-espionage prevention in a 50-kilometer radius with Maoliangwu as the center, and has cooperated with the Maoliangwu militia in launching a one-month population census, completing the establishment of household registration files within three months, and conducting no less than five air defense exercises

After entering December, Wu Ming, the commander of the new Second Division, strengthened the training of professional medical personnel while strengthening the military training of the headquarters! He attached great importance to the teaching of the West Zhejiang Medical College and the West Zhejiang Nursing College, which are subordinate to the new Second Division System, and went to the newly built training base in the west of Kaihua City on many occasions to inspect the situation of the special intelligence and training institutions that had been set up a year earlier.

After straightening out the intricate relations between the parties, Wu Ming began to take time out of his time to go to Hangzhou, Shaoxing, Ningbo, and other places in eastern Zhejiang, ostensibly to assist the Maoliangwu Chamber of Commerce in handling mortgages of up to more than 1.2 million yuan, but secretly launched the establishment of a series of intelligence points.

Chengzong Taoist followed Wu Ming to Hangzhou twice, and under the funding of Wu Ming, in the name of Zhengyijiao, he spent 600 legal dollars from the Hangzhou Municipal Government to buy the dilapidated Taoist temple Huanglongguan, which is less than two miles away from Qinghefang at the foot of Wushan Mountain in the south of the city.

After the official completion of the Huanglongguan, there will be a class of outstanding sappers quietly entering as ordinary coolies, building a hidden basement and an escape tunnel, Chengzong from the Zhengyi Sect ancestral court to go to the two low-level old Taoists, has successfully arrived at Maoliangwu Ziyun Temple, they will go to Hangzhou Huanglongguan after the completion of the Taoist Temple to preside over the work, and the rest of the Taoist priests will be served by special intelligence officers.

After several years of experience, the young master of the Zhu family no longer has a little greenness on his fair and rich face, his demeanor has become more and more steady, and his personality has become more and more calm, not only with a net worth of hundreds of thousands of dollars to become a famous young rich businessman in Zhejiang, but also monopolized the entire photographic industry, opium supply and underground arms trading in western Zhejiang, and also spent money to build cinemas, dance halls and hotels, becoming more and more like an industrial tycoon.

In fact, this guy was included in the officer establishment by Wu Ming after secretly receiving training from the Quzhou Party Affairs Training Base, but his identity as the deputy chief of the Intelligence Section of the New Second Division was only known to Wu Ming and Chief of Staff Zhang Dongning. As for Ye Zhuhan, who was born in the CC department and is currently the head of the Intelligence Section, he will explain it below, so I won't repeat it here.

On 10 December, after paying a huge bribe of 120,000 yuan, the 1.2 million yuan mortgage loan of the Hangzhou branch of the Bank of Communications was transferred to the account of the Mao Liangwu Chamber of Commerce, and Li Kun, at the behest of Wu Ming, transferred all the money to the account of the HSBC Bank in Shanghai.

Gu Yueheng has done the same thing for Wu Ming seven times, plus this is the eighth time, and the total amount handled has reached more than 1.5 million US dollars, after the money is transferred to Citibank's secret account, Gu Yueheng's task is successfully completed, and future transactions can only be carried out by Wu Ming himself.

As for how Wu Ming would use the money, or where to turn it, Gu Yueheng couldn't care about it, and he didn't bother to care.

All along, Gu Yueheng regarded the money as Wu Ming's secret money for purchasing advanced manufacturing equipment or smuggling high-tech communication equipment from European and American businessmen, and believed that the equipment or equipment to be sent to China in the future would be the same as the previous arms and ammunition transactions, and Wu Ming would directly send ships to the sea to receive the goods and quietly smuggle them in through the Qiantang River.

Gu Yueheng has never known what to do, Wu Ming has already owed a large amount of money to the major foreign banks in Shanghai due to the time difference, and Wu Ming has no intention of repaying it.

Due to the influence of Wu Ming's advocacy that there must be a war between China and Japan, after the conclusion of this matter, Gu Yueheng prepared to go to Hong Kong and Nanyang to inspect the investment environment there and prepare for running away in the future.

After Wu Ming received Gu Yueheng's telegram that "the matter has been done", he finally completely relieved his mind and began to turn all his energy to Xi'an, which was about to undergo great changes.

On the morning of 12 December, news came from the ancient city of Xi'an that Zhang Xueliang, leader of the Northeast Army, and Yang Hucheng, head of the Northwest Army, had sent a joint telegram to the whole country, advocating the reorganization of the central government, accommodating all parties and factions, stopping all civil wars, releasing the arrested patriotic leaders in Shanghai, releasing all political prisoners, opening up the people's patriotic movement, and guaranteeing all political freedoms of the people.

Lao Jiang was arrested, the supreme leader was gone, and the whole country was shocked, not only the Nanjing government was in chaos, but all parties appeared on the scene, and Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang Province, also fell into great panic and chaos.

At a time when no one in the province knew what to do, Fang Youchun, commissioner of the Quzhou Administrative Bureau, who was extremely shocked by the fact that Wu Ming's prediction had come true again, after a short period of hesitation, issued an order to impose martial law on the entire area under his jurisdiction in accordance with the plan.

Qi Ke, the major general of the Quzhou Military Station, was also shocked, and just when he didn't know what position Lu Dao should take in this great change, Wu Ming rushed to Quzhou to visit.

After the two had a deep talk, Qi Ke was relieved, and immediately ordered Chen Qian, the deputy station supervisor, to lead the officers and soldiers of the two regiments under his command to impose martial law on all stations and wharves, and closely cooperate with the Quzhou Administration to extinguish rumors to stabilize the situation.

On the evening of the Xi'an Incident, after a fierce quarrel at the executive meeting and political meeting of the Kuomintang Central Committee urgently convened in Nanjing, the hardliners headed by He Yingqin quickly passed a five-point resolution in disregard of the strong opposition of Dai Chuanxian, Soong Meiling, Kong Xiangxi, Soong Ziwen, and others under the condition that the attitude of the Lixing Society was ambiguous and the CC department remained neutral:

1. Zhang Xueliang was strictly derelict from his duties; 2. The Executive Yuan shall be headed by Vice President Kong; 3. Add He Yingqin, Cheng Qian, Li Liejun, Zhu Peide, Tang Shengzhi, and Chen Shaokuan as members of the Standing Committee of the Military Commission; 4. The Military Commission shall be under the responsibility of Vice Chairman Feng and members of the Standing Committee; 5. The command and transfer of the armed forces shall be the responsibility of He Yingqin, Minister of Military Affairs.

Wu Ming, who returned to the Changshan military camp to control the overall situation in western Zhejiang, was very leisurely, and he watched the voice of the crusade from all walks of life across the country and the "Letter to the National Soldiers" jointly issued by Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng, and disdained the feat of He Yingqin in mobilizing the main forces north and south of the Yangtze River to go north to crusade against Zhang Yang in the following days.

On the morning of 16 December, the New Second Division suddenly received a military order issued by Minister of Military Affairs He Yingqin, ordering the New Second Division to prepare for the march north to Xi'an within 24 hours.

Wu Ming thought about it for a long time, and called back to the Central Military Committee and the General Staff Headquarters to express his obedience, but he also told that there were as many as seven practical difficulties in the headquarters that needed to be solved urgently, and implored the Military Committee and the General Headquarters to help, and then secretly called Zhou Wenyan, deputy director of the General Affairs Department of the Central Party Department, to ask the reason.

Zhou Wenyan's call back came soon.

After reading it, Wu Ming realized that the CC department has always had a huge contradiction with He Yingqin, and He Yingqin has long regarded Wu Ming's new second division as an important military strength of the CC department, and he has a very poor impression of Wu Ming, who has never met and only heard of it, so he seized this rare opportunity and transferred the new second division as a second-line army to the northern battlefield to fight a battle.

Wu Ming was so angry that he sent six telegrams to the Military Committee and the General Headquarters one after another, demanding that the division's arrears of military salaries and appropriation fees totaling more than 400,000 yuan be paid as soon as possible, and that the Military Committee should replenish the weapons and ammunition of a regiment for the division that had just completed the expansion work at the forward military station.