Qiu Qingquan, chief of staff of the Central Military Academy's Teaching Corps, was standing in the courtyard of the headquarters, gathering with several other general-level officers to smoke, and happened to see Yang Longfei coming out of the building, so he called him over to have a chat.

Qiu Qingquan took out a box of "Camel" brand cigarettes from his trouser pocket, took out one and handed it to Yang Longfei, but the people did not appreciate it, and said with a smile: "Forget it, I don't like to smoke foreign cigarettes...... After speaking, he took out a box of "Three Forts" cigarettes from his pocket, took out one and put it in his mouth, lit a match and led it, and then took a big gulp.

Qiu Qingquan had no choice but to smile bitterly and stuff the cigarette in his hand back into the cigarette case.

They were also gathered for a cigarette with Lieutenant General Yu Jishi, then commander of the 74th Army and commander of the 58th Division, and Lieutenant General Sun Yuanliang, then commander of the 72nd Army and commander of the 88th Division.

Yu Jishi and Sun Yuanliang were both born in the first phase of Huangpu, and Qiu Qingquan graduated from the second phase of the engineering department of Huangpu. Among them, Yu Jishi's position is the most prominent, his uncle Yu Feipeng once served as the quartermaster of the Whampoa Military Academy, and later relied on this relationship, Yu Jishi was sponsored and successfully admitted to the first phase of the Whampoa Military Academy. But he is by no means one of those gentlemen who rely on nepotism to rise to the top, on the contrary, he himself still has some real material. After graduating from the military academy, Yu Jishi served as a probationary platoon commander, a rotary platoon commander and a reconnaissance team leader in the military academy teaching regiment. After the end of the two Eastern Crusades, Yu Jishi's military rank was also promoted from second lieutenant to colonel, and he was only in his early twenties that year. The most important thing is that he also served as a guard by Chiang Kai-shek's side for a period of time after graduation, and he won the trust of Chairman Chiang.

Yu Jishi also smoked a "camel" brand cigarette, raised his eyebrows slightly, and said in a very joking tone: "Commander Yang's face is really not small, as far as I know, among all the regiment-level officers in the entire Central Military Academy Teaching Corps, you are the first person who dares to directly refuse Chief of Staff Qiu's initiative to smoke, which is not good." You know, there are really not many people who can make Chief of Staff Qiu deign to smoke, and you are about to be treated with us people, why do you have to refuse? This will make your Chief of Staff Qiu feel cold. ”

Sun Yuanliang also took over the conversation and sighed: "That's it, it's still Brother Liangzhen who hit the nail on the head." Commander Yang, I deeply admire the proud achievements of your troops in the 'August 13' Luodian Campaign, but I still have good words to advise Your Excellency, guard against arrogance and rashness, and never succeed. To put it mildly, when Sun was fighting with the Japanese in Miaohang Town five years ago, he was afraid that Commander Yang was also a student who had just graduated from the military academy, right? It's true that young people are resolute and competitive, but the key is that they should not be arrogant and look at people with their nostrils, especially for their own superiors, this is not ......"

Yang Longfei quietly listened to Sun Yuanliang in front of him teach him the "way of being a man", but he didn't say anything but a burst of ridicule and contempt in his heart, in all fairness, he looked down on this guy a little.

Objectively speaking, looking at the first half of Sun Yuanliang's life, it can be said that he has a mixed reputation. During the Northern Expedition, Sun Yuanliang served as the regiment commander under the 1st Division of the 1st Army of Jiang Yan's department, and cooperated with Cheng Qian's 3rd Army to attack Sun Chuanfang, a direct warlord in Jiangxi. After capturing Nanchang, Wang Bailing, the commander of the First Division, instead of ordering his subordinates to strengthen the defense line of the city, led his subordinates to have fun and look for flowers and willows.

Sun Yuanliang, who was the commander of the First Regiment of the First Division at the time, was in charge of garrisoning Niuhang Station, and as soon as the battle began, Sun Yuanliang's essence was exposed. Because he did not do a good job of guarding in advance, the troops were scattered, and Sun Yuanliang simply fled first under the escort of several guards. As soon as the regiment commander ran, the troops were leaderless, and in the face of the enemy's large-scale siege, they scattered before they could resist, causing the gate of Nanchang City to open, and Sun Yuanliang's regiment did not fire a single shot in the whole process. What's even more ridiculous is that when Sun Chuanfang's troops conquered the Nanchang City Gate, Wang Bailing was still lying on the bed of a kiln sister listening to music. The result can be imagined, Nanchang City changed hands again, and the division commander Wang Bailing did not tie the belt of his trousers, so he fled in a hurry with the remnants of his subordinates, like a lost dog.

Afterwards, Sun Yuanliang's regiment was sent to Fengxin County, Yichun City, by Cheng Qian, the commander of the Third Army, to cover the assembly of the main force, but Sun Yuanliang himself refused to carry out the order, and when he heard that Sun Chuanfang's army was about to arrive in Fengxin, he was so frightened that he almost peed his pants, and fled without firing a shot.

It is said that Chiang Kai-shek flew to the Fengxin front to give a lecture and publicly stated that he would kill Sun Yuanliang for "dereliction of duty." After a period of time, Sun Yuanliang disappeared as if the world had evaporated, and at that time, his sentencing caused a heated discussion inside and outside the party, some people said that he died, some people said that he was removed, and some people said that he studied abroad.

But who would have thought that two years later, Sun Yuanliang, the "Scud" regiment commander who had lost face in the national army, would return to people's attention again. No one would have thought that this guy, who had been sentenced to "death" by Chiang Kai-shek, would now turn into a foreign student who had just graduated from the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer School. It must be admitted that Sun Yuanliang's study abroad experience has undoubtedly paved a more open road for his future military career. So much so that just a few days after he returned to China, he was appointed as the head of the artillery regiment of the 1st Guard Brigade of the National Government, and less than three years later, he successfully became the brigade commander again.

I have to mention that perhaps it is the true biography of his old commander Wang Bailing, Sun Yuanliang's lust and escaping spirit have almost become his personal motto. Not to mention the distance, take the Nanjing Campaign as an example, after Sun Yuanliang led his troops into Nanjing, he neither built fortifications nor formulated a battle plan, but plunged into the kiln near the Confucius Temple to listen to the prostitution. This matter was also overheard when he was chatting with Fang Luocheng's kid, although Yang Longfei's attitude was very casual, but in fact, he looked down on this chief surnamed Sun from the bottom of his heart.

"Chief Yu and Chief Sun, don't beat me with cymbals, I, Yang Longfei, am not a big person, in the final analysis, I am the head of the regiment, wearing the rank of colonel, high or low. Besides, I am not the Communist Party that fought guerrillas in the Shaanxi, Gansu, and Suining areas back then, so I didn't work for the two commanders to outflank me left and right, and I was flanked back and forth. Yang Longfei threw the cigarette butt in his hand to the ground with a smile and crushed it with his foot.

Yu Jishi said half-jokingly: "Alas, Commander Yang's words are out of sight, let's get together and make a joke or something, don't take it seriously, and don't talk about the Communist Party at every turn, right?" Besides, whoever is a Communist Party will not be a Communist Party, really, don't believe it, I have a basis for saying this. ”

Yang Longfei asked modestly: "I would like to hear the details." ”

"As the saying goes: people go to high places, and water flows to low places. If someone Yu heard correctly, just now Commander Yang said that he would not be high or low in the Central Army? If there is such a thing, then Yu suggests that you think about it in reverse, what is the Eighth Route Army that has just been reorganized on the Jinchaji side? When you see it, I promise you won't have that thought. I've seen the photos taken by the Central News Agency, good guys, dressed in tatters like flowers, and I heard that the military uniforms are still pasted like that. Not to mention the guy in his hand, even the fucking 'Hanyang Made' and '*' are treated as a treasure, as if they were afraid that others would snatch them away from him, and this will be seized into a 'Zhong Zheng' That's all shit luck, sleep at night and grin like a lotus, and wake up with a smile when you dream. The key is that this dirt road is not paid, so that the soldiers under him not only have to work backwards, but also have to die. I was still thinking at the time, if I can't afford to pay, I have to take care of enough food, but what is the result? Hey, don't say fill your stomach, it's good not to starve. With this kind of messy team, if someone forces me to go, I really might as well be killed by a headfirst crash. Really, I don't bluff you, there was a day when I was really dead. ”

Sun Yuanliang also glanced at Yang Longfei with a smile: "It seems that Brother Liangzhen knows a lot about the local stubborns over there, if you want me to say the same, Commander Yang is also from the first five phases of Huangpu, and he just fought a beautiful battle in Luodian, and the third war zone has been rewarded by general order, and the future is naturally limitless." As far as I know, since the day the Central Army was founded, there has been no precedent for promotion in the line of fire. Listen to me, as long as this battle is over, brother, if you don't make trouble, you will have to change to a gold star to wear. When the time comes, not to mention the supreme commander of the war zone, even the principal himself will not be able to forget you. Do a good job, Commander Yang, the party-state can't treat a talent like you badly. ”

Yang Longfei nodded with a smile to show his approval of Sun Yuanliang's "ear to face". But in his heart, he scolded silently: It is said that "people go to high places, and water flows to low places", but you have all forgotten the other two sentences, right? That is, "the high place is not cold, and the low place is full of rivers". You bastards bastards, all you pretend to be promoted and get rich all day long, or you just play money to go to the kiln, do you take the lives of the little people seriously? It seems that the Communist Party scolded you right before, just as the so-called "civil war insider, foreign war outsider", isn't it just you guys who have not done enough and have more than enough to lose?

Yang Longfei was also confused by the words that Yu Jishi and Sun Yuanliang said, so much so that the words he blurted out now seemed unfair. As a matter of fact, there are still quite a few talented people within the Kuomintang who dare to fight tough battles, such as Xue Yue, who was then commander-in-chief of the Left Wing Army, Li Zongren, commander of the Fifth Theater, and Fu Zuoyi, commander-in-chief of the Northern Army of the Second Theater, all of whom have successively played a decisive role in the future battlefield against the enemy.

To put it mildly, Yang Longfei is now holding his breath in his chest and not vomiting unpleasantly, at this time he always feels an irrepressible impulse in his heart, if it weren't for the fact that the underground party representative named Cui Zhicheng has repeatedly told him not to reveal his identity and to keep it a secret, otherwise according to Yang Longfei's temper, I am afraid that he will really point to the noses of the two opposite sides and solemnly declare his identity as a Communist Party member to them. Forced by the situation, Yang Longfei had no choice but to endure it.

At this moment, a slightly trembling howl from a person resounded throughout the corridor of the headquarters, and even standing in the courtyard, he could hear it clearly: "Sir Tang, you are unjustly in your humble position!" Be merciful...... Sir Tang, I, Zhou Kunpeng, am loyal to the party-state...... Spare my life, let me go to the battlefield to make meritorious service and atone for my sins...... Chief Tang, don't kill me, you can't kill me, let me go to the battlefield to make meritorious service and atone for my sins, Chief Tang...... Chief Tang ......"

I saw that Zhou Kunpeng's whole person was paralyzed on the ground, his two legs were no longer obedient, and he was dragged out of the courtyard like a dead dog by two people dressed as military policemen, one left and one right. But his voice never stopped, and it grew louder and louder, with a kind of fear and despair at the end of the catastrophe, but to no avail.

Just listen to the "Horn!" A crisp gunshot rang out, once again attracting the attention of everyone inside and outside the hospital. The scene that catches people's eyes is the scene after Zhou Kunpeng, who was immediately executed as soon as he was dragged out of the hospital: a bullet with a caliber of 7.63 mm directly exploded the back of his head, and the blood mixed with milky white * splashed the two gendarmes in charge of execution, and the body of Zhou Kunpeng, whose wrists were tied by ropes, was maintaining the posture before his death, curled up on the ground like a maggot, and the sense of despair and fear on his face was still not weakened with the passing of life. It seems to have been frozen in eternity at this moment.

The two gendarmes looked at the bloodstained military uniforms on their bodies with disgust, looked at the corpse of Zhou Kunpeng lying on the ground, and scolded: "Damn, it's really cheap, you have to disgust us before you die...... As soon as the two turned around, they saw Yu Jishi and others who were walking towards them, and the gendarmes stood up and saluted.

"What happened to Kunpeng this week? Didn't I see him upstairs just now, why did he suddenly die? Yu Jishi asked.

"Zhou Kunpeng committed the crime of dereliction of duty and was executed, which was ordered by Chief Tang himself." The gendarme explained.

Sun Yuanliang raised his eyebrows slightly, and sighed in a weird manner: "Alas, you say that this guy is causing some trouble, he has to commit a crime of dereliction of duty?" Especially at this time, isn't this looking for death? Brother Yu'an, this is a mistake in your teaching corps, and the army is not strictly governed. If you want me to say, you have to be cruel to them, or you will be embarrassed. If you want to be normal, Chief Tang may still have to trouble you and Brother Frank Zhen, so you really have to be careful in the future......"

"Chief Sun's lesson is that Qiu must keep it in mind." Qiu Qingquan nodded yes with a smile. Before the words fell, the receptionist Wang Hanlin poked his head out of the window in the corridor on the second floor and shouted, "Sir Yang, it's your turn!" Chief Tang has something to say, come on! ”

Before leaving, Sun Yuanliang didn't forget to "care" again: "The threshold of the headquarters is high, Commander Yang, pay attention when you go in, take care of yourself......

After Yang Longfei turned around and glanced at Sun Yuanliang with a disdainful look, he walked straight into the headquarters building.