The news that the 19th Independent Brigade of the 58th Division was going to compete in the ring with the four main regiments somehow leaked out, and not only did the senior officials of the Ninth Theater Command and the Military Commission call to ask Feng Shengfa, but even Chairman Jiang was also alarmed, saying that he would come to Shashi on the day of the competition and personally serve as a referee.

Chairman Chiang's involvement caused a big fuss, and the date of the contest was forced to be postponed.

As soon as Yu Jishi heard that Chairman Chiang was coming, he patted his head and the internal competition of the 58th Division turned into a big competition of the 74th Army.

Within a few days, Gui Yongqing's army was also added, and Zuihou turned out to be a big military parade and a big exercise between the two armies.

At the same time, the venue of the contest and military parade was changed from Shashi to Huangpi, and the Central Daily, Ta Kung Pao Hankou Edition, the Hankou Edition of the Declaration, and the major news agencies all began to publicize the military parade one after another, and Huangpi was not far from Wuhan, and it is completely conceivable how many celebrities, young students, and ordinary people would go to Huangpi to watch the parade at that time.

On the surface, this seems to be the great glory of the 58th Division or the 74th Army, but it is not that simple.

To put it bluntly, because of the last fundraising at the Mingde Hotel, many people have a grudge against Feng Shengfa in their hearts, and they are waiting to see Feng Shengfa's troubles, isn't your 58th Division very good, and even the funds can be solved by yourself, okay, okay, I want to see what your 58th Division can achieve with this lot of funds.

If the 58th Division performs well in this parade, then it will be fine, once the performance is not good, then Feng Shengfa will probably be annihilated by the verbal criticism of the public opinion newspapers, and in order to realize the intention of killing Feng Shengfa, the senior officials of the Military Commission also found an extremely powerful sparring partner for the 74th Army -- the First Army

The number of the first army has appeared in the battle sequence of the Anhui army, the Hubei army, the Zhensong army, and the Hunan army, but the 27th army, which is about to compete with the 74th army, has nothing to do with the previous four 27th armies, and is composed of the 37th army and the 39th army plus the remnants of the Central Military Academy Teaching Corps.

In the defense of Nanjing, Gui Yongqing, the chief captain of the Central Military Academy Teaching Corps, performed no better than Sun Yuan, the commander of the army and RR division, and left the troops to escape alone at a critical moment, but his life was good, and there was a good chief of staff named Qiu Qingquan, under the command of Qiu Qingquan, the remnants of the Central Military Academy Teaching Corps were able to break through smoothly

It is precisely because of this that Gui Yongqing was not only not dismissed, but was even promoted and became the commander of the army.

The 27th Army is under the jurisdiction of the first division and the 46th division, of which the backbone of the 46th division is the remnants of the Central Military Academy Teaching Corps that crossed the river from Nanjing and broke through, and the 46th Division is also the first batch of main forces to be reorganized after the defense of Nanjing.

Shashi, 58th Division Headquarters.

Chief of Staff Yang Shaoren walked into the war room with a telegram, and said to Feng Shengfa with a wry smile: "Division, the matter of the military parade has been decided, the time is half a month later, the military parade is followed by the exercise, Gui Yongqing Army has been determined to participate, if the time comes, Huang Jie's 8th Army may also participate in this military parade." ”

He Lingxiao, the deputy division commander, pursed his lips and sneered: "The Military Commission really looks down on our 74th Army, and even uses the two Royal Forest Armies as sparring partners for us." ”

The commander of the 174th Brigade, Zhu Qi, and several regiment commanders also sneered.

The 46th Division under the jurisdiction of the army is based on the Central Military Academy Teaching Corps, it is not too much to say that it is the Imperial Forest Army, Huang Jie's 8th Army is not simple, its predecessor is the Eight Nations Bank Tax Police Corps, which is the former Minister of Finance of the National Government Song Ziwen spent a huge amount of money to build an elite army, a type of American weapons and equipment, compared with the Central Military Academy Teaching Corps is not inferior.

"Sparring?" Yang Shaoren smiled bitterly, shook his head and said, "I don't know who is the sparring partner for whom." ”

Feng Shengfa smiled faintly and said, "It seems that I, Feng someone, am really unlikable." ”

"Damn, didn't we get a donation?" He Lingxiao said angrily, "But Miss Tang thinks that our 74th Army is not good at fighting by themselves, who can they blame?"

"Alright, let's not talk about that." Feng Shengfa waved his hand and asked Yang Shaoren again, "Chief of Staff, have the military supplies ordered from Hankou arrived?" ”

"Master, I was about to say this." Yang Shaoren spread his hands and said with a wry smile, "There is no problem with uniforms, military uniforms, guns and ammunition, but the 75mm caliber Krupp mountain gun we ordered from the British is likely to be deducted by the Ministry of Military Affairs, saying that it is going to be taken out as a prize." ”

"Prizes?" Feng Shengfa frowned, "What prize?" ”

Although this 75mm caliber Krupp mountain gun is an old mountain gun eliminated by the British army, but it is well maintained, Feng Shengfa personally went to Hankou to inspect the goods, at least sixty percent of the new, whether the artillery battalion of the 58th Division can be rebuilt, all pointed to this mountain artillery, but now it has been detained by the Ministry of Military Affairs halfway, what the hell is this called?

Yang Shaoren smiled bitterly: "What else can it be, the prize of the winner of the exercise." ”

"Why?" He Lingxiao, the deputy division commander, was furious and said angrily, "This is the mountain artillery that our 58th Division purchased from the British with its own funds, why did the Ministry of Military Affairs insert a pole as a prize, isn't this?" ”

Yang Shaoren said helplessly: "The official level crushes people to death, what can I do?" ”

"Bullshit, the Ministry of Military Affairs just can't do this, isn't this bullying?"

"That's it, let's sue the military seat, the military seat can't control it, let's sue the committee to go."

"Damn, what is He Yingqin thinking about, blatantly robbing or what?"

Zhu Qi and several regiment commanders suddenly made noise, and the 58th Division would never suffer this dumb loss.

"What are you arguing about, what are you arguing about? Do you want to rebel or what? When several brigade commanders and regiment commanders were shouting, Yu Jishi walked in from outside the war room with a cold face, and Feng Shengfa and the others hurriedly stood up and saluted.

Yu Jishi returned the salute and sat down on the bench in the war room again.

"I've heard about the Krupp cannon." Yu Jishi glanced at Feng Shengfa and said, "Don't be resentful, Minister He is also right to do this, at present, the national government is short of military funds, and all corps, armies, and divisions are short of artillery. ”

"But......" He Lingxiao was about to argue with a single mouth, but Feng Shengfa stopped him.

Feng Shengfa stopped He Lingxiao, and said to Yu Jishi in a firm tone: "Don't worry, this Krupp mountain cannon, it should belong to our 58th Division, and no one can snatch it away."

"This is the Feng Shengfa I know, this is the fist unit of our 74th Army"

Yu Jishi nodded happily, and his heart was also a lot brighter, for the sake of the big parade, the big exercise and the Krupp Mountain Gun of the 58th Division, Yu Jishi actually just had a big quarrel with He Yingqin, and even made trouble in front of Chairman Jiang, but Zuihou Yu Jishi was severely reprimanded by the old Jiang, scolding him for only caring about his own one-third of an acre and three points of land, and having no overall situation.

This time he made a special trip to Shashi, Yu Jishi also wanted to see the training results of the 58th Division and 5 Pei, hoping that Feng Shengfa and Wang Yaowu could earn back face for him and cut He Yingqin's face fiercely, didn't you do everything possible and racked your brains to wear the small shoes of the 74th Army, okay, let's tell you with facts, what is called elite

Yu Jishi was interested, got up again and said, "Let's go, let's see the training of the troops." ”

"Throne, please." Feng Shengfa made a gesture, of course he would not not agree, let alone hide it, he didn't know how well 5 practiced, but 5 Pei's training was absolutely excellent.

Changsha, the military headquarters of the first army.

Gui Yongqing likes to play mahjong very much, and early in the morning he set up a dragon gate formation with Li Shusen, the deputy commander of the 46th Division, Li Liangrong, the commander of the 46th Division, and Zhou Zhenqiang, the deputy commander of the 46th Division, who had just come from Hengyang.

After the Central Military Academy Teaching Corps evacuated Nanjing, it went to Hengyang for rectification, and soon merged with the remnants of the 46th Division.

Although there were not many remnants of the 46th Division, the ranks of senior officers were retained very intact, and most of them were graduates of the Baoding Military Academy or the Continental University, while the senior officers of the Central Military Academy Teaching Corps suffered heavy casualties, and Lao Jiang transferred a large number of outstanding officers such as Qiu Qingquan and Liao Yaoxiang to the New Fifth Army, which caused an imbalance among senior officers.

After the merger, only the commander of the 138th Brigade of the 46th Division, Ma Weilong, was born in the Teaching Corps of the Central Military Academy, and after Gui Yongqing was promoted to army commander, the successor division commander Li Liangrong was also the former deputy commander of the 46th Division.

As the supreme commander of the national army, Chairman Jiang is best at and favorite is to gang up, when Zhang Xiaoliu changed banners, the first thing that Lao Jiang Fei did when he went to Fengtian was to take a group photo at the airport with several young and strong division commanders of the Northeast Army, in order to show his envelope.

The tradition of the national army is like this, no matter which unit is full of factions.

The same is true of the 27th Army, the army commander Gui Yongqing is trying every means to overthrow the commander of the 46th Division, Li Shusen, the depressed deputy army commander, is also secretly wooing Li Liangrong, and the division commander Li Ying is a family of his own, a small army, there are actually three hills, how much cohesion can there be, how much combat effectiveness can it have?

"Chicken." Gui Yongqing asked Zhou Zhenqiang while playing cards, "Has the army been mobilized?" ”

Half a month later, the army will go to Huangpi to participate in the exercise, and after the exercise, it will go directly to the Xuzhou battlefield to fight the Japanese army, and it is indeed necessary to start at this time, but for the upcoming Huangpi exercise, Gui Yongqing really didn't pay much attention to it, not to mention the 24th Division, the 46th Division is the old foundation of the Central Military Academy Teaching Corps, and it is by no means comparable to the miscellaneous cards like the 74th Army.

"Bump." Zhou Zhenqiang touched the chicken thrown out by Gui Yongqing and replied, "Don't worry, the army has been mobilized." ”

"Okay, when you get to Huangpi, behave well, and get that Krupp mountain cannon, your division can rebuild the artillery battalion." Gui Yongqing nodded happily, completely ignoring Li Liangrong present, as if Zhou Zhenqiang was the commander of the 46th Division, but Zhou Zhenqiang was a little uneasy in his heart, but Li Liangrong had no displeasure on his face.