Tens of thousands of troops on the front line continued to fight and fight repeatedly around the three towns of Wuhan, and the two major corps in the rear, totaling 400,000 troops, gathered non-stop on the Jianghan Plain.

This is how the largest battle in the history of the Northern Expedition began.

Columns of infantry columns, cavalry columns, and artillery wagons rolled up the sky with yellow dust rolling from the main roads in different directions in the north and south to gather in Wuhan, and for a time, the Jianghan Plain became a place that attracted the attention of the military and government of many countries in the country and even the world, and the people living in the land of China and the military and political leaders of various countries speculated about the outcome of this decisive battle.

Compared with the mobilization of thousands of troops and horses on the front line, the Northern Expedition Headquarters in Changsha was even more busy, and the logistics department in charge of logistics support mobilized a large number of laborers every day to deliver supplies and ammunition to the front line; The General Staff makes detailed planning and redeployments as required by the existing situation; The Reserve Cadres Division of the Ministry of National Defense is responsible for the collection of internal and external military information......

Undoubtedly, Huang Ke is at the heart of these efforts.

A week ago, when Huang Ke learned that his child had come to this era, he was a little excited, and at the same time, he also felt a moment of trance; He knew that he did not belong to this era at all, and what kind of impact would leaving future generations in this era have?

Is this era destined to change on its own?

Huang Ke has no way to answer now, and he doesn't want to answer either, because there are important things waiting for him at the moment.

After learning that Zhao Xiaowan gave birth to her own child, Huang Ke also got another important piece of information, that night, Zhao Tinghui was picked up by Wang Jingwei to his mansion, and only came out after more than an hour of discussion.

What did Wang Jingwei want to do when he found Zhao Tinghui at this time? Huang Ke couldn't help but put a big question mark in his heart.

However, the military ration incident that occurred a week later made Huang Ke can't help but link the two things, but unfortunately he has no evidence.

It turned out that more than half of the 5,000 tons of grain in a batch of 5,000 tons of grain were old and mildew, but the price purchased by the Quartermaster Department was a normal grain price.

After seeing this situation, Jiang Xianyun, commander of the Eastern Route Army, immediately ordered all the people of the Ronghua Company who delivered the grain to be detained, and demanded that the Ronghua Company distribute another batch of grain. Several managers of the Ronghua Company who were responsible for escorting grain were imprisoned in the prisoner of war camp of the Eastern Route Army, and the locomotive of the day was also detained by the special service battalion responsible for receiving the grain.

The hot-tempered Lin Zuoda also hung up the phone directly to the general manager's office of Ronghua Company, and as soon as he connected the phone, Lin Zuoda scolded the general manager of Ronghua Company on the other end of the phone.

Of course, the general manager knew what was at stake, but he knew that this matter was instructed by his boss, and he also knew the backstage of their company, so after fooling the other party on the phone, he simply told his subordinates that all the calls to him in the future said that he was not there.

Three days later, there was no news from Ronghua. The angry Jiang Xianyun and Lin Zuoda, as well as a group of generals of the Eastern Route Army, sent more than 30 telegrams to the headquarters one day to report the incident, and the phone number of the Northern Expeditionary Army Headquarters was also blown up by the Eastern Route Army.

Huang Ke sighed after seeing the telegram, he knew that the behind-the-scenes boss of Ronghua Company was his brother-in-law Zhao Tinghui, this person was a stingy person with a heart and bearing, and he could see that he could do this for such a little profit.

If this matter was really related to his meeting that night, Huang Ke had to think of a foolproof way to deal with this matter. If Zhao Tinghui is dealt with in this matter, he will lose some of the support of the merchant group, and he will also lose a useful businessman; But if you don't deal with Zhao Tinghui, how can you explain to the soldiers of the Eastern Route Army?

The Eastern Route Army was mostly composed of graduates of the Xiguan Military Academy, and these people were the most loyal to the revolutionary idealists, and if someone took advantage of this matter to incite them, then Huang Ke's status and influence in the army would be greatly reduced.

An unprecedented pressure hit Huang Ke, and Huang Ke experienced this dilemma.

After thinking about it again, that night, Huang Ke personally hung up the phone to Zhao Tinghui. There was a telephone in the office of Ronghua Company that could be connected to the military line, and Huang Ke asked for the phone to Zhao Tinghui's office at that time.

Zhao Tinghui was driving on the lawn outside at this time, and the phone was still answered by the general manager, although it was a military line, but after he answered, he still said in a disdainful tone: "Who do you want to find, boss?" There is no time to entertain you right now. ”

Huang Ke suppressed the fire: "I'm Huang Ke, you tell him to answer my call within ten minutes." ”

After speaking, Huang Ke hung up the phone, he didn't expect Zhao Tinghui to be rampant to such an extent, everyone knows what level of phone the military No. 1 special line is, but the manager under him is ashamed to ask who it is?

It seems that Zhao Tinghui must be covering the sky with one hand in the Guangzhou business community.

Although the manager didn't realize the importance of this call, he still walked to the door and told Zhao Tinghui about the phone, Zhao Tinghui heard that it was a call from the military No. 1 special line, quickly jumped out of the car and ran to the office, and then answered the phone in a panic.

"Boss Zhao, I already know about the military rations, you don't have to hide it anymore, I tell you now, prepare a batch of grain and send it to the Eastern Route Army before tonight; After delaying the battle ahead and the great cause of the Northern Expedition, no one can intercede. ”

After speaking, Huang Ke hung up the phone with a snap, Zhao Tinghui couldn't calm down for a long time after hearing it, he knew Huang Ke best, he knew Huang Ke from the time he killed Qiu Ba. That night, Zhao Tinghui transferred the grain to the car and transported it to the headquarters of the Eastern Route Army.

According to Huang Ke's plan, he even wanted to put this brother-in-law in prison, but he still didn't do it after all, and in the end the matter was over, but Huang Ke was more strict with logistics support. In his words, to deal with such people, it is necessary to catch a batch, and then kill a batch.

Although he had helped himself a lot before, he was still a small businessman's vision after all, and his vision of problems and things was relatively limited, and he did not have a big vision at all, which he was far from Fu Wangshan.

What can Wang Jingwei talk about secretly when he finds him? Huang Ke had no way of knowing, but he could be sure that this chain of events must be related.

Thinking of this, Huang Ke couldn't help but have doubts, the war had begun, and there were many problems in the front and rear, and he hadn't closed his eyes for a few days and nights.

Just when Huang Ke was anxious, Fourteen Tsai knocked on the door and came in to report that the telegram from the expeditionary force Batu had arrived.

In the confidential communications room of the headquarters, the officers and men wearing khaki cloth were busy, and the officers on duty checked the messages of the previous day as usual, because it was a time of battle, and the messages sent by non-front-line non-encrypted ones were generally put on hold for a day before being deciphered.

In the decipherment room, a young lieutenant colonel was flipping through the mountains of telegram paper as usual, although he was only in his thirties, but this lieutenant colonel had been in the communications army for more than ten years, and the thick callus on the back joint of his right middle finger was enough to indicate the length of time he had sent messages.

Suddenly, an ordinary telegram came into his eyes, although this telegram was sent from the regimental level, but the signature was "lone wolf", and the lieutenant colonel who was familiar with intelligence knew that this was the code name of the expeditionary force.

What the lieutenant colonel didn't understand was that the expeditionary force usually used encrypted frequencies for communication with the headquarters, but this time I don't know why the general frequencies were used, so it was delayed. After seeing this, he didn't dare to slack off and report it immediately.

The staff officer on duty immediately sent a telegram to the guardhouse, which was sent to the 14th boy, and then transferred from the 14th boy to Huang Ke.

Huang Ke frowned after seeing the message: "The payment on the telegram was yesterday, why did it come today?" ”

"Commander, General Batu did not use encrypted channels to send his telegrams, and he used regiment-level radio communications, so everything was delayed." Fourteen Tsai explained.

Huang Ke waved his hand to let Fourteen Tsai go out, judging from the telegram, Batu and they must have encountered unimaginable difficulties, but now he reached out to himself to ask for supplies, even now it is impossible to send him over, if the Northern Expeditionary Army reaches the Yellow River, maybe this expeditionary force has frozen to death.

Huang Ke put the newspaper in front of the table, he stood up and looked out the window, at this time his heart was like a hot blood rushing in an instant, making it difficult for him to breathe, he knew that it was because of the pressure.

No way! Since fate has arranged for me to come here, I must shoulder an important task; Huang Ke cheered himself up in his heart, and he believed that he could create miracles.

"Fourteen!" Huang Ke shouted loudly at the door, and Fourteen immediately pushed the door in, and Huang Ke said to him: "Inform all the Standing Committee members of the General Staff to gather for a meeting now." ”

"Yes!" Fourteen Tsai carried out the order resolutely and decisively.

"Wait a minute!" Huang Ke stopped him, "Go and call the standing committee members of the logistics department over and have a meeting together." ”

Ten minutes later, the officers of the staff department and the officers of the logistics department on duty arrived, and a dozen senior officers of the staff department sat at a long table, and the officers of the logistics department sat on the other side.

After everyone arrived, Huang Ke handed the telegram paper to Bai Chongxi, who was sitting next to him.

"You all look at it in turn, this is from Batu yesterday." The telegram was sent out from Bai Chongxi in turn, and a few minutes later, after everyone had finished reading the telegram, Huang Ke coughed softly and asked, "Have you finished reading it?" ”

"I'm done." Everyone answered the same way, but the tone was not consistent.

"Batu's army is not simple, starting from Hunan to fight half of China and finally arrived at the Yellow River, seeing that after crossing the Yellow River, they can go straight to Sui, but now they have problems, their logistics are not good, they have no cold cotton clothes, and there is no food to eat, and now they are standing by the Yellow River, and they are about to drink the Yellow River when they stop."

Huang Ke stood up as he spoke, pacing back and forth among the staff officers.

"I don't blame Batu at all, I'm very happy that he can do this, there is no food, no ammunition, no soldier supplies, he just walked most of China, Batu is worthy of the title of a soldier."

"But! For a general, never rest on your laurels, let alone stand still, and I ask you the same! ”

Obviously, some of Huang Ke's words were deliberately said to these people here, because corruption and embezzlement also breed among them, and it is also because of such corruption that the soldiers on the front line have suffered more severe blows outside the war.