In the Changshan barracks, Chen Cheng, accompanied by the generals of the headquarters and Long Shaogang, deputy head of the Fifth Security Regiment of the Zhejiang Army, visited the officers and soldiers of the 18th Army who were recuperating from their wounds in the hospital.

Lieutenant Xiao Dingchen, the medical officer who stayed at the hospital, was the senior brother of Steve and Dai Ziran, a native of Chun'an, western Zhejiang, and was invited by Wu Ming from the Hangzhou Mission Hospital to serve as the vice president of the field hospital.

Xiao Dingchen gave Chen Cheng and others a detailed introduction to the treatment and recovery of the remaining 27 seriously injured people, and said proudly at the end:

"Thankfully, all the five hundred and seven wounded and sick brothers survived, nearly half of the brothers have basically recovered, and the rest that need to continue treatment have been sent to the spacious auditorium in the west, and we have assigned a team to be in charge of it together with a dozen of your nurses, leaving only these twenty-seven seriously injured brothers who need special care, all the operations have been completed, all of them have successfully passed the dangerous period, and the rest is to continue treatment and slowly recover."

Chen Cheng was very moved when he heard this, grabbed Xiao Dingchen's hand tightly, thanked him frequently, and said with deep feelings: "It's all up to you...... Last night, as soon as I returned, I went to the auditorium west of the camp to see the more than 200 well-cared for brothers, and they are so grateful for your friendship! ”

"Deputy Head Li, who saved his left leg, took my hand and burst into tears, let me thank you for him, Xie Lu Xie is a superb Dean Steve, even American surgical experts recommended amputation, only Dean Steve always insisted on his own opinion, and personally operated on our Deputy Head Li, and not only successfully saved Deputy Head Li's leg after the end, but now the injury is also recovering well, I believe it will not be long before we can go to the battlefield alive again!"

"In addition to Deputy Regiment Commander Li, there are many other officers and soldiers who have entrusted me to thank you...... It can be seen from this that you not only have deep affection for our brothers in the 18th Army, but also have superb skills and noble medical ethics. ”

"No thanks, no thanks! The so-called healer's parental heart, this is what we should do...

Xiao Dingchen hurriedly waved his hand, and then he frowned, and asked puzzledly: "But my subordinates are a little strange, the Eighteenth Army is the main force of our army, from the Central Plains War to the present, it has always been a model and model for the construction of the national army, everything is according to the best configuration, why don't you want to set up your own field hospital?"

Chen Cheng was embarrassed and scratched his head to hide the embarrassment on his face, and the other generals and colonels did the same, their faces flushed.

"Ahh

Zhou Zhirou let out a long sigh and patiently explained: "Where is the field hospital so easy to set up? At present, there are few hospitals in the whole Chinese army, except for the Nanjing Army General Hospital and the Xuzhou Field Hospital, and only the field hospital temporarily set up by the Jiangxi General Headquarters in Nanchang remains...... At present, there are usually only a dozen doctors and ordinary nurses in each army and division, and there is a serious shortage of qualified personnel, so it is not easy to set up a field hospital! ”

"Won't you...... Can these difficulties really stump the 18th Army, which is known as the trump card of the Central Army? I don't think so! ”

Xiao Dingchen lifted his glasses and said very stubbornly: "Our regiment commander has told me more than once that ~ the role that a veteran who has been on the battlefield can play can often be as good as five recruits or even more, so since the beginning of my regiment, from the regiment commander to the commander of each battalion and company, we have attached great importance to the training of medical officers and professional nurses, not to mention the preferential treatment in all aspects, the most important thing is to give us the greatest respect and pride!" ”

"To put it mildly, as long as we add some more medical equipment to our hospital and bring back the medical detachments scattered in various battalions and the permanent Maoliangwu training base, we will be able to form a division-level field hospital with 15 doctors and 80 professional ambulance personnel!"

"Two years later, when we return from the two groups of people we sent to Quzhou Hospital for internship and Hangzhou Church Medical College for further study, we will be able to increase the number of doctors to more than 50, and our professional ambulance personnel will even reach more than 200...... What I want to ask is, why can't you, an ace of the Central Army, do what we can do with a local security regiment? Who will believe it? I don't think it's that you can't do it, but you don't value the lives of ordinary soldiers! ”

"Ahh You...... Dean Xiao, I beg you, don't talk nonsense......"

Long Shaogang on the side was so anxious that he was sweating profusely, and he persuaded a few words but ushered in Xiao Dingchen's eyes, knowing that he couldn't persuade Xiao Dingchen, who had superb medical skills but an upright temper, so he had to turn around and say with a smile Wu Ming They are afraid that they are coming, please Chen Cheng and you move to the regiment headquarters.

Chen Cheng, who was quite guilty in his heart, saw Xiao Dingchen, who was not tall in a white coat, turn around and leave, so he had to follow Long Shaogang out of the back door of the hospital.

Entering the playground, Long Shaogang hurriedly apologized to Chen Cheng and the generals:

"I'm sorry, please forgive the general and all the commanders, Dean Xiao is this bull temper, even our regiment commander dares to speak out, and he always makes unpleasant trouble...... We are all afraid of Dean Xiao, but his temper comes and goes quickly, just talk about things, never go to the heart, and Dean Xiao has very good skills, a strong sense of responsibility, and is also very good to officers and soldiers, but his head will not turn, and he can't change the stinky temper of cultural people, please don't go to your heart, hehe! ”

"No!"

Chen Cheng waved his hand: "Dean Xiao is right, we did ignore this aspect of construction in the past, if it weren't for Dean Xiao's words, I'm afraid I wouldn't have realized that this is a major defect in our army." ”

Chen Cheng spoke earnestly, and then turned to his generals: "Dean Xiao said it well, why can they do what a local security regiment can do, but our Central Army can't do it?" I figured it out, it's really not about money, it's not that it's hard to find talent, it's that you and I don't pay enough attention to it...... As Dean Xiao just criticized, we don't value the lives of ordinary soldiers...

"Ladies and gentlemen, please listen to me, if it were not for this fiasco, without Brother Wu Mingtuan's generous acceptance and care, I am afraid that we would not have been touched in the slightest, let alone learn from it. Although I have been suspended, I am still a member of the 18th Army, so I have now decided that we must build our own field hospital of the 18th Army, and it must be built within half a year, and strive to have its own field hospital within a year, and I don't care how much it costs, I hope you will work together! ”

"Yes!"

All the generals replied in unison, Chen Cheng, who had never expressed any opinion after the defeat of Zhilu Dao, was going to come to the real story this time.

Chen Cheng smiled at Long Shaogang, who was stunned on the side, and said, "Let's go, it is estimated that you Regiment Commander Wu and Deputy Army Commander Luo have just left Quzhou at this time, and it will take at least an hour and a half to arrive...... You take us for a walk and look around, I like your big camp very much. ”

"Yes!"

The nervous Long Shaogang breathed a sigh of relief, and carefully accompanied Chen Cheng and the others to visit the Changshan camp, including Xiao Qian, the commander of the 11th Division, and Zhou Zhirou, the commander of the 14th Division, followed closely behind the two, listened to Long Shaogang's detailed introduction, and asked about specific matters from time to time, and Long Shaogang could answer frankly.

Walking to the door of the independent courtyard built on the north side of the auditorium against the hill and guarded by two sentinels, Chen Cheng consciously stopped, Long Shaogang deliberately concealed the three arsenals that had been hollowed out of the mountain and built with reinforced concrete and stone strips, and only introduced the surface buildings that could be seen in the camp:

"Inside is our regiment's munitions warehouse, covering an area of about 25 acres, surrounded by a three-meter-high wall equipped with a power grid, there is a spring on the mountainside, and we have built a fire pool that can hold 100 tons of water, which is quite regular."

Chen Cheng pointed to a large truck that could be seen from the gate, and asked with a smile: "Does your regiment have its own convoy?" ”

Long Shaogang hurriedly explained: "There are only five cars inside, all of which are refurbished old trucks that have just returned from Quzhou...... The real convoy of our regiment was in the yard next to the regiment headquarters, all of which were small cars, and there were only two small Ford trucks that could carry a ton of cargo...... If the general is interested, he may wish to go in and have a look. ”

"Can you get in?" Chen Cheng asked.

Long Shaogang immediately puffed up his chest: "Yes!" How could it not? Our regimental commander said that as long as the general wants, he can go anywhere. ”

Chen Cheng was deeply moved, thanked him in a low voice, and then unceremoniously asked Long Shaogang to take him in for a visit.

Long Shaogang immediately complied, and the generals behind him looked interesting, and couldn't help laughing out loud after feeling it.

Entering the gate of the yard, everyone is amazed by the layout and architecture of the yard, a total of twelve warehouses in the left and right two reservoir areas, built from low to high according to the mountain, cleverly using the drop, at the door of the warehouse to build a very strong and convenient loading and unloading platform, each warehouse side and the recess below the platform, there is a striking fire water valve, the walls of the warehouse are painted with camouflage paint, the back two rows of warehouse roofs, covered with a large area of grass green rope net for camouflage, see Chen Cheng and others are dazzled, Long Shaogang said that this was done by the brothers of the engineer company without doing anything and messing around.

After half a circle, Chen Cheng and Long Shaogang returned to the garage on the side of the iron gate in the courtyard, approached five large trucks that had been sprayed with camouflage and had been remodeled, and asked Long Shaogang very surprised if it was really an old car?

Long Shaogang truthfully replied that it was indeed an old car that had just been driven back after overhaul, and it was a scrapped vehicle that Wu Ming had spent a lot of money on from the battlefield in Jiangxi and asked the military station transport team to help tow it back.

Seeing that these cars didn't look like scrapped cars anyway, Chen Cheng and the generals were puzzled, and they didn't have time to dig deeper. I heard a familiar laugh coming from the gate of the courtyard.

Everyone turned their heads to look and saw Wu Ming, Luo Zhuoying, and Huang Wei striding towards them with a spring breeze on their faces.