Huang Zheng is now an operational staff officer at the headquarters of the 32nd Group Army. Zhang Zizhong naturally knows his true identity. At first, when Liu Jian, the commander of the North China Theater, told him that he wanted to send Huang Ke's eldest son to his subordinates to serve as soldiers, Zhang Zizhong refused without hesitation.

You don't have to think that everyone knows what's going on, you must come down to exercise, add some luster to your resume, and then take over a half-official position after arriving in Nanjing, and then step into the door that others need to cross for a lifetime.

Zhang Zizhong has seen a lot of such people, and there are not many others in the years of the Republic of China, if you want to say that these sons and brothers have a lot of them, whether it is a government department at all levels, or which army, you can always find a lot of such people.

He can't change it, and naturally he won't touch this mold, but you want to stuff people into him and let him serve carefully? Zhang Zizhong naturally did not agree.

If it's just in normal times, and he still does it like this when he is fighting now, he will definitely not agree.

Liu Jian seemed to have expected that Zhang Zizhong would refuse his request, and he smiled and said, "Don't worry, I still know about this Huang Zheng." At the beginning of the Anti-Japanese War, he also served as a soldier in Guan Linzheng, and Lao Guan said that this posterior life is not simple, not the kind of oily and powdery boy, but still has some ability. ”

"Forget it, my one-acre three-point temple is small, and if I have the ability, I can go to other troops." Zhang Zizhong waved his hand, indicating that he was unwilling to wade into troubled waters.

Liu Jian continued to laugh and said: "I'm not worried about the others, don't I believe in your Xunchen's ability." ”

No matter what Liu Jian said, Zhang Zizhong still waved his hand and said: "Commander Liu, you don't know, my troops are on the front line, and you also know the situation on the battlefield, in case there are three long and two short, don't say it, no matter what, I won't accept this son-in-law......"

Liu Jian continued to smile and said, "You don't have to worry about this, Commander Huang also said before that he should go to the front line of the battlefield to exercise." ”

"That's not going to work." Zhang Zizhong still refused.

Liu Jian's originally smiling face was retracted, and he deliberately said seriously: "This is not good, that is not good." I think you're deliberately disobeying orders. Don't say anything more, this is an order assigned by the personnel of the theater command. I'll let this kid report to you. He's now in the rank of major, so I think I'll go to your area as an operational staff officer. ”

The soft one is not good, Liu Jian will come directly to the hard one.

There is no way, the official level crushes people to death. In this way, Huang Zheng came to the army under the command of General Zhang Zizhong as an operational staff officer.

After reporting to the military headquarters for the first time, Zhang Zizhong let Huang Zheng sit on the cold bench for more than half a month, did not assign any tasks to Huang Zheng, and did not let him participate in any war situation.

Chief of Staff Zhang Kexia knew Huang Zheng's true identity, and when he saw that Zhang Zizhong only asked him to serve tea and pour water every day, he reminded him: "Commander, everyone is looking forward to building a good relationship with the above, and if you don't take the initiative to build a relationship, it doesn't matter, why do you deliberately offend the people above?" No matter what this kid says, he is also a 'crown prince', and he can't let people serve tea and pour water. ”

Zhang Zizhong smiled after hearing this: "You only know one thing but you don't know the other, if something happens to him here, it will be a trouble." Besides, I can't afford this blessing, and I'm about to fight a big battle, and I don't have so much energy to take care of this son. It's better to get him away sooner or later, so as not to cause more trouble. ”

"But this makes him go to the staff headquarters every day to serve tea and pour water, which is too much, not to mention that he is a major who has been on the battlefield, even ordinary military cadets don't do much of this, after all, these are all orderlies." Chief of Staff Zhang felt that something was inappropriate.

"That's what I'm for, if he can't stand it, he'll leave. lest it delay me in fighting devils. Zhang Zizhong said with a smile.

He thought that if he was left to dry him like this, he would apply for a transfer because Huang Zheng felt bored, and then he would stuff people into Liu Jian's hands, in a word, send away this plague god.

But what I never expected was that Huang Zheng had been working hard. You asked him to serve tea and pour water, and he served tea and poured water every morning, and came the earliest, and filled the boiling water boiled in the boiler room every day, and worked for more than half a month without complaints.

These all made Zhang Zizhong feel strange, could it be that this kid really had two hits?

Of course, when Zhang Zizhong had a different view of Huang Zheng, Huang Zheng also had a change of opinion about him.

In fact, Huang Zheng did not want to come to Zhang Zizhong's troops, this arrangement was secretly instructed by Huang Ke to Liu Jian.

Huang Zheng naturally didn't know about this secret arrangement. He still knew Zhang Zizhong a little, and before he came, he had heard many people talk about this General Zhang. To be honest, Huang Zheng is not very interested in him as a person. Previously, Zhang had served in Beijing and Tianjin, and when the Japanese army wanted to forcibly land from the sea, Zhang had many secret contacts with the Japanese in order to avoid the expansion of the situation, and also made some concessions to the Japanese.

After these incidents, many people in China ridiculed him as a traitor who "thought he was loyal", and public opinion across the country pointed the finger at Zhang Zizhong, and even many people marched in Nanjing to demand that he be brought to justice on the spot.

However, Huang Ke finally tried his best to defy public opinion, and instead of holding him accountable, he transferred him to the North China Theater and promoted him to the commander of the group army, commanding the army to fight against the Japanese invaders.

For these, Zhang Zizhong is naturally sad and happy in his heart.

He immediately packed up and prepared to go to the Shandong battlefield, but what he never expected was that when Zhang was transferred to the Shandong battlefield, the train he was riding was still surrounded by many patriotic and enthusiastic young people along the way, so that he could only hide in the toilet of the carriage along the way and did not dare to come out.

The dignified general has fallen to such a state that the pain in his heart is beyond words.

After arriving at the Shandong battlefield, Zhang Zizhong strictly rectified military discipline, fought several battles with the Japanese army, and achieved many great victories, but in the eyes of many people, he was just trying to erase the efforts of being a "traitor".

To be honest, Huang Zheng was also influenced by such thoughts at first, so for such a general, Huang Zheng was not very cold.

However, a few days later, an unintentional activity completely changed Zhang Zizhong's opinion of him, and of course, in this matter, he also changed Zhang Zizhong's opinion of himself.

In the winter of 1940, the battlefield in North China was much calmer, and the Chinese and Japanese troops were stationed on a certain front.

Although there were fewer big battles, Zhang Zizhong still did not relax at all. Every morning, as long as there is nothing to do, he will personally supervise the troops directly under the headquarters to go out to exercise.

This kind of drill is different from the drill of ordinary combat troops, except for those on duty for combat readiness, all officers must be in place.

Zhang Zizhong visited Japan many times in his early years, and he saw in the Japanese army that many high-ranking officers would undergo morning drill training like ordinary soldiers, and some Japanese generals even often underwent bayonet and * training, and their physical fitness was much better than that of many officers in China.

In the middle of winter, Shandong's dripping water turned into ice, and it coincided with the heavy snow for several days, the weather was freezing and there was no war, so the officers and men snooze for a while, and by 6:50 a.m., they had not yet carried out the scheduled drill.

At this time, Zhang Zizhong, who had already gotten up, came to the playground, but found that there were only buglemen and an officer standing there on the playground, yes, this person was Huang Zheng.

The snow was falling one after another, and Huang Zheng's feet were already covered with snow, but he still straightened his waist like a javelin.

"You're the new midshipman?" Zhang Zizhong asked.

"Report to the sir, trainee staff officer Zhao Zheng is waiting for the drill password!" Huang Zheng's voice was a little hoarse, obviously because he had been frozen for a long time.

"How long have you been here?" Zhang Zizhong asked.

"Report, it's been ten minutes since I heard the wake-up call." Huang Zheng replied.

Zhang Zizhong nodded, he turned to the trumpeter and said, "Blow the assembly horn again!" ”

Toot toot! The horn of the assembly number retraced in the air, and after more than ten minutes, these officers stood up on the playground.

Zhang Zizhong was very angry when he saw such a team, he looked up at the sky, the snow was still falling, and he knew that there was already a thick layer on the ground.

"Do you feel like you don't want to when it's cold?" Zhang Zizhong glanced at everyone.

No one answered.

"I'll ask you, if the Japanese call now, will you still sleep under the covers?"

There was still no answer.

"The first priority of a soldier is not to be afraid of hardship, you don't have to do anything when it snows, what else are you talking about defending your family and defending the country?" He raised his voice again.

There was still no response.

After speaking, Zhang Zizhong took a few steps forward and began to unbutton his military coat in the cold wind. When everyone was puzzled, he had already unbuttoned it, and then took off his military coat in an uproar.

After taking off his coat, he was not finished, he began to untie the cotton clothes and military uniforms on his body again, taking them off one by one, and in the end, only a thin shirt remained. But he didn't plan to stop, he actually took off the last shirt and went shirtless in the cold wind.

"Afraid of the cold! Everyone is afraid of the cold, but we are soldiers! Zhang Zizhong's voice was loud: "Now everyone will take off their shirts with me and complete today's drill together." ”

Everyone in the crowd began to take off their clothes in a sparse manner, and soon, everyone took off their shirts cleanly. Amid the sound of the majestic trumpet, hundreds of officers completed the day's training shirtless.

After the same day, Zhang Zizhong transferred Huang Zheng from the boiler room and transferred him to his side as an operational staff officer. After Huang Zheng came into contact with General Zhang, he found out that this person was a real soldier!

Years later, Huang Zheng was amazed when he talked about General Zhang. Of course, at this time, he didn't know that General Zhang, who was under the pressure of public opinion, was under unimaginable pressure.