On the day that Wu Ming commanded his brothers to start building fortifications, the good news of the 19th Route Army's recovery of Tiantong'an and Shanghai North Railway Station came from the east.

In the following five days, Wu Ming, like all the brothers in the teaching team, spent three shifts of day and night construction, fortunately, the weather was fine, although it was still cold, but there was sunshine every day, coupled with reasonable construction arrangements, the whole team did not have more injuries than expected, and the construction progress of the triple trenches and twelve reinforced concrete fortresses was smoothly advanced, and it was praised by the inspection team many times.

On the afternoon of 7 February, as the last wooden stake of the most rearmost trench was knocked down, the left flank position of the bluestone bridge defense system was completed two days ahead of schedule, and the 2.8-kilometer trench was regarded as a model project by the inspection team, and the 12 reinforced concrete fortresses that could withstand the bombardment of the 75th artillery were highly praised by the project acceptance team of the Security Department for their advanced and scientific design and high-quality construction progress.

At noon the next day, all the fortifications of the right flank position on the south bank were also completed, and they were also fully approved by the acceptance team, but more than 400 of the 2,000 officers and men of the regiment directly under the regiment, who had never suffered this crime, fell ill, and the rest were all lying on their stomachs in the barracks and could not stand up.

Ma Zhizhai, the chief of staff who was half tired and half dead in command of the overall situation, could finally catch his breath, while the officers and men of the teaching team on the left flank position on the north bank began to train intensively according to the fortifications as if they had taken the wrong medicine.

Lieutenant Colonel Liu Rulin, liaison officer of the Provincial Security Office and the new chief of staff of the Hangzhou City Defense Command, now greatly admires Wu Ming, and on the afternoon of the day when all the projects of the Qingshi Bridge defense system passed the acceptance, he drove a Buick car to Hangzhou City to ask for credit for Ma Zhizhai and Wu Ming.

At the special military meeting of Zhejiang Province held on the morning of the next day, Liu Rulin reported on the progress of the defense system built around the entire city of Hangzhou in the face of Lu Diping, chairman of Zhejiang Province, Ge Jingen, special commissioner of the Central Military Commission, Zhu Jiahua, inspector of the Central Party Department, and more than 50 chief officials at all levels. All officers and soldiers of the West Zhejiang Security Command who completed the construction of all fortifications ahead of schedule with high quality.

Provincial Chairman Lu Diping and special commissioners Ge Jingen and Zhu Jiahua discussed slightly, and immediately decided to temporarily suspend the meeting and jointly go to the Qingshiqiao defensive position for on-the-spot inspection.

Just after 11 a.m., a huge convoy of four troop carriers and 12 imported cars arrived at the Qingshiqiao checkpoint.

Liu Siwei, the commander of the engineer company who led the team on duty, saw this formation, his face turned white all of a sudden, and he hurriedly sent a platoon commander to inform Wu Ming, who was leading the team to train on the northern position, and he led more than ten brothers who had just been laid off to wait in line.

More than 100 officers and men of the guard on the four troop transport trucks jumped out of the car and quickly set up a cordon, and Ma Zhizhai, who was instructing the commanders of a group of regiments and battalions under his direct command in the headquarters of the Qingshi Temple, received an urgent report and hurriedly led the regimental commanders who were in a hurry to run out to greet them.

Xie Zixuan, a seasoned deputy chief of the Operations Section, rushed alone to inform the battalions and companies to stop resting and gather all the brothers who could move to enter the position as quickly as possible.

Ma Zhizhai led more than a dozen school officials to salute and report in front of a group of high-ranking officials, Lu Diping, the provincial chairman wearing a lieutenant general's uniform, was more satisfied, Ge Jingen and Zhu Jiahua also nodded slightly to show their appreciation, and several directors and deputy directors of the security department secretly breathed a sigh of relief when they saw this.

Those present are either politicians who have been immersed in officialdom for many years, or veteran generals in the army who have led troops for many years.

Provincial Chairman Lu Di'an soothed a few words, looked around, and suddenly asked: "Isn't there a teaching captain named Wu Ming in your western Zhejiang security forces?" Where is he now? ”

Ma Zhizhai knew that Wu Ming must have received the news that Shangfeng had come to inspect the position, but he didn't know if Wu Ming would take the initiative to come over, so he decided to excuse Wu Ming first: "Major Wu Ming is leading the teaching team to carry out simulated offensive and defensive training in the left flank position at this time. ”

"Oh?"

Lu Diping was deeply surprised, and looked at Ma Zhizhai with blazing eyes for a while, as if he did not believe that the major captain of a district security force would know how to simulate offensive and defensive training.

Ge Jingen was very interested when he heard this, stepped forward half a step, came to Lu Diping's side, and asked loudly: "Chief of Staff Ma, you just said that your teaching team directly under the Zhejiang West Security Command is carrying out offensive and defensive simulation training in the left flank position, have they ever submitted a training plan to you?" ”

Ma Zhizhai was in a difficult situation, and he didn't have time to think about it, so he had to answer stubbornly: "Yes!" If the commander needs it, his subordinates will fetch it, but ......"

"Good! Go and fetch it for me now, and if you have anything to hide, you will be punished by military law!" Ge Jingen's eyes became sharp, and without waiting for Ma Zhizhai to finish speaking, he sealed Ma Zhizhai's retreat, because he clearly saw the instant panic in Ma Zhizhai's eyes.

"Yes."

Ma Zhizhai could only salute and turn away, thinking about what to do while running? Wu Ming did not submit any offensive and defensive drill reports to him at all, but only verbally told him how to do it, so Ma Zhizhai could not come up with a specific training plan at all, so he had to use the two booklets "Infantry Training Manual" and "Ordnance Maintenance and Repair Manual" written by Wu Ming and currently being promoted in the army.

In any case, the current security forces in western Zhejiang are implementing Wu Ming's set, and they have also won the respect of the vast majority of officers and soldiers, and they cannot be regarded as bullying the officials.

Lu Diping saw a group of low-level officers in front of him who were at a loss, and felt that it was not a matter to wait like this, so he simply proposed that everyone go to the left-wing position together to take a walk and see with their own eyes how Wu Ming's teaching team trained, and by the way, to inspect the fortifications that were praised by Liu Rulin as a mess.

Although Lu Diping himself was not very interested in Ge Jingen, who was sent by the Central Military Commission to inspect the military preparations, and as the chairman of Zhejiang Province, he did not want to see the army in his province make a fool of himself, but he did not dare to offend the red man around Commander-in-Chief Chiang, so he behaved very tactfully and politely.

When everyone heard Lu Diping's proposal, they happily agreed, and Director Cheng hurriedly turned to look at Liu Rulin behind him, and when he saw Liu Rulin's confident appearance, several directors were not good at saying anything, so they silently followed Lu Diping, Zhu Jiahua, and Ge Jingen, and walked forward.

For Wu Ming, an outstanding officer at the grassroots level who suddenly emerged, several chief officers of the security department still have a certain understanding, and they think that with Wu Ming's excellent performance in the past, even if he is not favored by the superiors, at least he will not lose the face of the Zhejiang security forces, but everyone is quite scruples about the rigorous and serious character of Ge Jingen, the special commissioner of the Military Commission.

Who is Ge Jingen? This is a famous person in the world, he was admitted to the Zhejiang Military Academy at the age of fourteen, after graduation because of his excellent grades became an instructor, and then entered the Zhejiang New Army as an officer, at the age of 20 he was admitted to the Beijing Army University, after graduation, he stayed in the school as an instructor for two years, and was sent to the Japanese Army University for further study again, and after graduation returned to China as the chief of staff of the first division of the Zhejiang Army, and then was invited by Chiang Kai-shek to be a senior staff member, and successively served as the chief of staff of the General Headquarters of the National Revolutionary Army, the director of the staff office of the Central Military Commission, and the deputy director of the ** Deployment Committee, Qingdao mayor and other prominent and important positions.

At the end of last month, Commander-in-Chief Chiang Kai-shek returned to the mountains and immediately invited Ge Jingen back to serve as deputy director of the General Staff Headquarters of the Nationalist Government and member of the Central Military Commission.

No matter what the heads of the security department think, Wu Ming is Wu Ming, he does his own thing, and he never wants to be a big man, until the anxious Liu Rulin rushed into the trench and grabbed him and scolded him, this guy reluctantly blew the assembly whistle, and at this time, Lu Diping, Ge Jingen and other senior generals were already standing in the middle of the two semi-concealed reinforced concrete fortresses in the main position, pointing at several shooting holes of the one-meter-and-a-half-thick fortress in the front.