Yu Jishi took great care of Wu Ming, and in the past few months, he has given the newly formed 100 th Brigade conscripts as much as 300,000 oceans of military expenses to supplement the shortfall, and the military salaries of the officers and men of the brigade have been paid in full, and military uniforms, shoes, hats, weapons, ammunition, and material supplies have been oversupplied, and 24 imitation 60 mortars and four brand-new American trucks from the Jinling Factory have been brought back for Wu Ming from the Quzhou military station.

After the encirclement and suppression in northeastern Jiangxi was over, Yu Jishi, as before, handed over all the wounded and sick to Wu Ming's department, which was responsible for logistics support, and all the more than 400 wounded and sick and more than 600 prisoners of the Red Army were also handed over to the officers and men of Wu Ming's baggage battalion to escort to Changshan, and the three brigades under his command, which had been fighting continuously for more than three months, were stationed in Shangrao to rest and recuperate, and he himself led his henchmen and brigade commanders to rush to Nanchang to report to Chiang Kai-shek together with the headquarters special service group that escorted Fang Zhimin and other important figures.

Wu Ming's report on the adjustment and appointment of officers at all levels of the new 10th Brigade was also approved in writing by Yu Jishi before the Spring Festival, for which Wu Ming was full of emotion, full of respect for the generous and trustworthy Yu Jishi, and also quite guilty, and wrote several letters in a row to express his gratitude to Yu Jishi.

In contrast, Wu Ming was not so polite to his eldest brother Fang Youchun.

Entering the lunar month, Wu Ming returned to Changshan's house almost every day to have dinner with the old man and his wife, quietly bought back the rich New Year's goods, and prepared exquisite gifts with his wife for the sister-in-law and nephew and niece who went home for the Spring Festival during the Spring Festival.

But on the 28th of the lunar month, the day before Fang Youchun's family was about to return to Changshan's home for the New Year, Wu Ming "suddenly received an urgent report of the military situation" and had to "rush to Kaihua to deal with military affairs".

Regarding Wu Ming's excuse, the two elders were like mirrors in their hearts, but they couldn't break it, so they could only sigh and go with the flow, hoping that Fang Youchun, the son who had hurt his son-in-law's self-esteem, would put down the shelf and take the initiative to make up for the damaged relationship between the two parties.

Only the pot-bellied Fang Zhichun is very relieved, she knows that her husband is not unable to let go of that little bit of face and benefits, and he has no resentment against his eldest brother Fang Youchun, just to give Fang Youchun a profound lesson, so that he knows that the Taoist is not so easy to be.

No matter how urgent the matter is, and whether it is intimate or not, there are some rules of officialdom that everyone must abide by, and Fang Youchun will not correct the so-called "selfless, upright, and upright" crude work methods, which will not be beneficial to his future career at all.

On the twenty-ninth day of the Lunar New Year, Fang Youchun's family returned to their home in Changshan, and they were very annoyed to learn that Wu Ming had left yesterday, but after reading the "Preliminary Study on the Current Situation and Countermeasures of Quzhou Baiye" handed over by his sister Fang Zhichun to Wu Ming, Fang Youchun had mixed feelings, and finally understood that his brother-in-law and brother Wu Ming had never resented him.

For the next three days, except for asking his parents for a reunion dinner in the morning, Fang Youchun spent the rest of the time in his study, repeatedly reading the 58-page "A Preliminary Study on the Current Situation and Countermeasures of Quzhou's Hundred Industries", in which complete statistics and analysis, existing problems and countermeasures, overall decision-making and tax administration system, and specific solutions to how to restore and stimulate industrial and commercial development as soon as possible. said that he understood Wu Ming's good intentions.

On the second day of the Lunar New Year, the training base at the southern foot of Phoenix Mountain was full of joy.

The officers and men of the various departments of the base hurriedly made all kinds of colorful flags and lanterns, and Zhao Rongsheng, the director of the base, who had good calligraphy, lifted a large wolf's hair, wrote more than a dozen red slogans in succession, and joyfully instructed the brothers to immediately put them on the bulletin boards in front of the barracks.

After Yu Jishi transferred the Fourth Regiment away, Wu Ming transferred the Fifth Regiment of the descendant line stationed at the border of Kaihua County to Jiangshan to take over the defense, and officially changed its name to the First Regiment of the New Tenth Brigade.

The Second Regiment, composed of recruits from three battalions, took over the defense of Kaihua, and the special service company, machine gun company, engineer company, and baggage company directly under it were officially upgraded to battalions, and a large number of brothers were promoted with this adjustment and expansion, among which Long Shaogang, the former commander of the Fifth Regiment, was promoted to deputy brigade commander, Zhang Dongning, the former deputy chief of staff, was promoted to chief of staff, Luo Yuming, the former deputy commander of the Fourth Regiment, was promoted to the current lieutenant colonel of the First Regiment, and Yang Sixian, the former deputy commander of the Fifth Regiment, was promoted to the commander of the new Second Regiment.

With the assistance of Zhao Rongsheng, director of the base, and various instructor groups, Yin Dizhong, the former commander of the first battalion of the Fifth Regiment, was promoted to two levels and served as the lieutenant colonel of the newly organized Fenghuangshan Base Teaching Regiment

According to Wu Ming's plan for army building, before the end of 1935, the two main regiments must set up additional regimental machine gun companies, equipped with 12 heavy machine guns and 8 mortars. Each infantry company added a mortar platoon, equipped with six self-copied 60 mortars; Each infantry platoon has three squads, each with 13 people, one squad leader and two officers, armed with a Czech light machine gun, eight Mauser Nl4 rifles or Czech rifles, and two imitation Thomson submachine guns.

In order to achieve this goal as soon as possible, all regiments and battalions that have completed the adjustment are training vigorously, and a large number of outstanding soldiers will be selected and recommended by the battalion and company levels of each regiment to enter the Phoenix Mountain base to participate in a six-month rotation training.

In this way, not only has the enthusiasm of the officers and men been fully aroused, but it has also been a tremendous encouragement and spur to the officers; the cunning Wu Ming has added the word "acting" to the vast majority of the posts of the officers who have been promoted, and the military ranks have not been linked to the new posts; as a result, the officers of Wu Ming's department, who have generally low military ranks, are anxious; if they do not redouble their efforts and do not perform well in the internal confrontation exercises in the autumn, they will not only lose their faces, but I am afraid that they will not even be able to keep their acting posts. Not to mention the extravagant hope of getting a promotion in the military rank and more generous benefits, if you smash it, you may be put on the retirement list by the strict staff officers of the brigade headquarters.

Wu Ming stayed in the Phoenix Mountain military camp for three days, and on the afternoon of the second day of the Lunar New Year, he went to Ziyun Temple to toast with his good brother Chengzong Daoist and explain Chengyuan's affairs in detail.

Chengzong was helpless about his junior brother's joining the army, and within a few days of Chengyuan's sneak away, Chengzong sent a letter to report to his master, and waited for half a month to wait for a reply letter from the archdeacon of the ancestral court and Chengyuan's master Bingzhen Zhenren, there was only one page in it, and there were only four words on the paper: let it be

Until he left Ziyunguan after drinking, Wu Ming did not tell Chengzong about Chengyuan's recent situation, and the only one who was locked up in the Chinese New Year's Eve of the whole brigade was Chengyuan, and this guy trained with the third company of guards for less than half a month, and he couldn't stand the strict military discipline and kick the right step practice every day, pestering Wu Ming to ask to go to Lu Kuiyuan's special agent company for training.

Wu Ming thought about it and agreed, after all, this guy started to speak, he followed the master to learn literacy, and then practiced martial arts while learning literature for 12 years, not only has a solid cultural foundation, can write a beautiful calligraphy, and the talent for practicing martial arts is very high, just fifteen years old soared to a height of 1.8 meters, in the third company of the guard is as conspicuous as standing out from the crowd, but what can be learned, there is a brigade commander brother standing behind, he made a mistake The officers and soldiers of the three companies of the guard did not dare to punish severely, and Wu Ming had no choice but to agree to his request, put him in the harder spy company to hone.

This guy has only been training with the spy company for a month and a half, and then he ran back to the Changshan military camp without greeting him, and he also had to follow Wu Ming's side to learn, and Lu Kuiyuan, who was strict in governing the army, sent three telegrams in a row for this reason, strongly asking Wu Ming to punish Sun Chengyuan who "disobeyed military orders and escaped from the battle", otherwise he would not be able to retire from the army.

Wu Ming learned that Lu Dao said that during the training, Lu Kuiyuan looked for opportunities to change the method to "train" Cheng Yuan, but he didn't expect that Cheng Yuan, who was laughing and laughing all day long, was not only not stumped, but gradually adapted to it, whether it was marksmanship or special skills, he slowly caught up, but he was slightly lacking in collaborative tactics, so he was seized by Lu Kuiyuan to take turns "special training".

The tenacious Chengyuan endured silently for half a month, and finally in the hand-to-hand combat training, he used three moves to knock out Lu Kuiyuan, the first master of the brigade, and only then did he remember the strict military law and military regulations in Wu Ming's army, and immediately found an excuse to escape from the special training base, and weighed it repeatedly along the way, and finally thought that Lu Kuiyuan did not dare to mention this embarrassing thing to his eldest brother Wu Ming, so he not only did not admit his mistake to Wu Ming, but also lied that he had completed the training and came back to learn the strategy of leading the troops to fight with Wu Ming. in order to increase knowledge and experience.

Who knew that after receiving Lu Kuiyuan's telegram to learn the truth of the matter, Wu Ming was furious, and the most taboo thing for him was that his brothers lied, and everything else could be dealt with lightly, but lying could not be forgiven, so Wu Ming pointed to Chengyuan's nose and scolded him, and immediately announced the punishment: seven days of confinement

The brothers of the whole brigade were shocked, not to mention that the Chinese New Year's Eve was coming, but to say that who could endure the seven-day confinement that the army had never had until now?

Squatting in the dark in the underground pit dug out temporarily, only allowed to drink water and not eat, ordinary officers and soldiers were imprisoned for three days and could not stand it, and the longest time in the history of the brigade was only five days and five nights, as a result, the unlucky platoon commander almost went crazy after being released, and later received a severance pay and retired directly, and could not stay in the army at all.

After hearing this, the brothers rushed to the brigade headquarters to intercede for Chengyuan, Zhang Dongning directly sent a telegram to the special training base, Lu Kuiyuan regretted receiving the news, and sent three more telegrams to ask Wu Ming to open the net, and the last telegram also threatened not to deal with Chengyuan lightly, and he had no face to go down.

After receiving Lu Kuiyuan's intercession telegram, Wu Ming called Lu Kuiyuan back in public: Don't pull down, get out of the army

In this way, no one dared to intercede for Cheng Yuan, and all the brothers, including Cheng Yuan, finally saw Wu Ming's ruthless side under military law, and finally Cheng Yuan admitted his mistakes in a proper manner, and finally put forward a small request: "Can I dig a pit in the backyard of the brigade headquarters and jump down by myself?" It's humiliating to be out there. ”

Although Wu Ming scolded you for knowing that you were embarrassed, but in the end he agreed, and ordered the military judge to personally supervise it, and Cheng Yuan dug a three-meter-deep pit silently, and then jumped down by himself, from the twenty-eighth day of the Lunar New Year to the present, he has not said a word in it.

At 10 o'clock in the morning of the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, Zhang Dongning, chief of staff who was on duty at the brigade headquarters, sent a telegram to the Fenghuangshan base, and the telegram was quickly delivered to Wu Ming, who couldn't cry or laugh after reading it.

The telegram read: "Chengyuan was confined to the end, safe and sound, looked up to the sky and jumped out of the deep pit with a smile, had a full meal, washed and changed clothes, and went to the Chinese mansion in the city to pay New Year's greetings." ”