Half a month passed quickly, and the time for the Huangpi exercise had finally arrived.

The exercise site was selected in Mulan Township, Huangpi County, where the terrain is relatively complicated and the population is not too dense, so it is more suitable for conducting exercises, and the exercise headquarters has also been set up, and the army's division, the 46th division, and the 558th division of the 74th Army have also set up a neat queue on the open ground outside the exercise headquarters.

The four German armament divisions, arranged in battalion units, formed a phalanx, extending from the outside of the large tent that served as the headquarters of the exercise to the end of the field of vision, which was spectacular.

The phalanx of the 19th Brigade was at the front of the 58th Division, and the officers and soldiers of the UU who participated in the parade were arranged in 20 rows in front and back, with a phalanx of 60 people in each row, Xu 19 stood on the far left side of the phalanx, and there was still half an hour before the official start of the exercise.

The weather is so good today, shouldn't the bombers of Little Japan come to join in the fun?

Wuhan is located in the rear, thousands of kilometers away from the front line, and little Japan's short-range light bombers cannot fly so far, but no one dares to guarantee that there will be no small Japanese long-range bombers coming to attack, and once the small Japanese long-range bomber group comes to bomb during the military parade, the consequences will be unimaginable.

In fact, Xu Shijiu was completely overly worried, and little Japan now did not dare to bomb Wuhan.

After the fall of Nanjing, the situation faced by the Nationalist Government was not unusually severe, and seeing that it was really possible for Japan to annex the whole of China, Stalin, who had been undecided, finally did not calm down, and as soon as Stalin was not calm, all kinds of materials and personnel to aid China were continuously imported into China, including the air force to aid China.

As of April this year, the Soviet Union had sent more than 300 destroyers and bombers to China, and more than 200 pilots and ground crews had aided China.

At 10 o'clock in the morning, a huge convoy slowly approached along the dirt road in the countryside, and several hundred armed gendarmes ran along the convoy to follow up.

Amid the cheers, Chairman Chiang, Minister of Military Affairs He Yingqin, Deputy Chief of General Staff Bai Chongxi, and other senior officers of the command, got out of their cars one after another, and Gui Yongqing, Yu Jishi, Li Shusen, Feng Shengfa, Wang Yaowu, Li Liangrong, and other senior officers at the army, division, and brigade levels, who had already been waiting outside the exercise headquarters, greeted them one after another.

Chairman Chiang smiled and shook hands with the senior officers of the army and the 74th Army one by one.

According to the usual practice, Chairman Chiang would inspect the officers and men participating in the exercise only after the exercise was over, but seeing that all the officers and men participating in the exercise were in high spirits and high spirits, Chairman Chiang suddenly became interested and decided to inspect the exercise in advance.

The first to be inspected by Chairman Chiang was the division.

The first division was reorganized from the Hunan army He Yaozu, not a descendant of the Central Army, in the Battle of Songhu, the division suffered heavy losses, the veterans were almost lost, and although the 7th Army was nominally turned into the Central Army, it was not treated much by Gui Yongqing, so the equipment was relatively poor, and even the dress was a little messy.

However, the spirit of the officers and men of the division was not bad, and the marching procession was quite neat.

Chairman Chiang, who was slowly moving forward, waved his hand again and again to the officers and men of the division lined up, and with a smile on his face, it could be seen that he was quite satisfied with the mental outlook displayed by the officers and men of the division.

The division was followed by the infantry phalanx of the regiments and battalions of the 46th Division.

Whether it is the rifle in hand, the military uniform on the body, the steel helmet on the head, or the leggings on the feet, the 46th Division is much more neat than the division, and even the mental outlook, the officers and men of the 46th Division are obviously superior to the officers and men of the division.

This is also the proper meaning of the question, the 46th division is Gui Yongqing's descendant.

Chairman Chiang was also a little moved, he had not seen such a mighty army for a long time, and He Yingqin, who was standing behind Chairman Chiang, lost no time in praising it: "What a mighty army, if hundreds of infantry divisions of our revolutionary army have such a mental outlook, why can't we drive little Japan out of China?" ”

Gui Yongqing couldn't help but feel a little proud in his heart, and looked at Yu Jishi, the commander of the 74th Army, as if demonstrating, Yu Jishi didn't see it, and turned his eyes away, Gui Yongqing pursed his lips disdainfully, and whispered to the deputy army commander Li Shusen: "Brother Shusen, do you know that elite soldiers are trained, not piled up by money.

Gui Yongqing's voice was not very loud, but it was enough for everyone nearby to hear it.

Gui Yongqing's words obviously meant something, and he insinuated that Yu Jishi took 500,000 US dollars but couldn't train an elite soldier.

The senior officers of the 74th Army suddenly looked angry when they heard this, but Li Shusen smiled noncommittally, he didn't want to get involved in the dispute between Yu Jishi and Gui Yongqing, one of them was Chairman Jiang's nephew, and the other was Minister He's favorite general, no matter which one, he Li Shusen could not afford to provoke.

Seeing that the officers and men of the 46th Division were neat and vigorous, Chairman Jiang even deliberately stopped and called Gui Yongqing, Li Liangrong, and Zhou Zhenqiang, deputy commander of the 46th Division, to him to encourage him.

After reviewing the 46th Division, Gui Yongqing's nostrils had already reached the sky.

However, when the infantry platoon of 5 Pei appeared in front of Chairman Chiang and a large group of senior generals, Gui Yongqing was immediately a little dumbfounded, because the officers and men of 5 Pei were actually wearing a new military uniform, wearing a German-style steel helmet, and stepping on a single color of rubber-soled black cloth shoes, and the queue was more neat than that of the 46th Division

More importantly, the officers and men of the 5th Pei Division were obviously more murderous than the officers and men of the Division and the 46th Division.

Regarding this point, even if the 58th Division, which has not yet been reviewed, is not as good as the 5th Pei, Wang Yaowu still has the ability, otherwise he would not have been able to intercept the entire two corps of the Red Army with only one brigade at Tanjiaqiao, and Zuihou also killed Xun Weizhou, who was the most capable of fighting among the many division commanders of the Red Army at that time.

If you score the three divisions that have been reviewed, the division is barely qualified, the 46th division is considered good, and the 5th pei can be regarded as excellent.

Chairman Jiang had summoned Wang Yaowu, who was still the commander of the Independent Brigade, and was deeply impressed by this tiger general, so he immediately called Wang Yaowu to him and asked the reporters accompanying the army to take a group photo of the two of them.

Yu Jishi was so happy that he smiled and said to Gui Yongqing: "Brother Zhen, you were wrong just now, the real elite soldiers are not trained, but fought, the establishment of 5 Pei is not as good as the 46th Division, and the equipment is not as good as the 46th Division, but there is one thing that the 46th Division can't compare, that is, there are more veterans, hehe." ”

In the Battle of Nanjing, the 74th Army withdrew more than 7,000 officers and soldiers, which was the most complete in formation, but the 558th Division of Zuihou was abolished from the establishment of supplementary regiments and reduced to a C division of two brigades and four regiments.

The Central Military Academy Teaching Corps only withdrew more than 2,000 people, but after it was combined with the 46th Division, it was expanded into a division of the 3rd Brigade and 9th Regiment, and the 46th Division was also a priority supplement in terms of equipment.

But today, Yu Jishi finally got out of his bad breath.

Gui Yongqing was still not convinced, and retorted coldly: "What's the big deal, isn't it just a new military uniform and a new steel helmet?" Give me $500,000, and I can buy more than 20,000 officers and soldiers an American-style military uniform and an American-style steel helmet. ”

"Really?" Yu Jishi smiled, "Then I'll wait." ”

Here Gui Yongqing was fighting with Yu Jishi, and Chairman Jiang had already finished taking a photo with Wang Yaowu, and then continued to review Zuihou's 58th Division, but with 5 Pei Zhuyu in front, the 58th Division was not very visible, although the officers and men of the 58th Division were not bad in terms of military appearance and spirit, but they still failed to exchange for Chairman Jiang's stop.

After reviewing all the four divisions under review, Chairman Chiang returned to the exercise headquarters surrounded by everyone.

The sand table has already been built in the command center, and the sand table is completely copied according to the real terrain of Mulan Township, and for this sand table, the senior staff officers of the headquarters have been busy for almost half a month, and the sand table has been filled with small red and blue flags, and the situation map of the battle between the two armies has been realistically drawn up.

A colonel staff officer of the command picked up the command pole, pointed to the sand table and began to explain: "The red side participating in the exercise is the 46th Division of the Army, and the blue side is the 58th Division of the 74th Army. ”

Bai Chongxi frowned and said, "This seems to be a little inappropriate, the forces of the two sides are not equal. ”

He Yingqin retorted: "There is nothing wrong with it, the battlefield situation is changing rapidly, and no one dares to guarantee that our own troops will definitely be able to occupy an advantage, in the past, when we conducted exercises, we always required the two sides to participate in the exercise to have equal forces, but in fact, it is not necessary, not to mention that although the 58th Division has few troops participating in the exercise, it is in a more favorable position." ”

Bai Chongxi stopped talking, and Yu Jishi didn't seem to have any opinions.

Seeing that no one spoke, the colonel's staff officer in charge of the explanation pointed to a hill in the center of the sand table with a command pole and said: "This is the highest peak in the mountainous area of Mulan Township, 'Tianzi Chong,' there is a red flag on the mountain, after the participating troops entered the designated position, the 46th Division attacked from west to east, and the 58th Division attacked from east to west. ”

Staff Officer Colonel Zuihou asked Gui Yongqing and Yu Jishi again: "What other questions do the two commanders have?" ”

Gui Yongqing and Yu Jishi shook their heads to indicate that there was no doubt, and the colonel's staff officer then ordered the exercise to begin.