The heavy rain was pouring down, and the delivery room of Guangzhou Boji Hospital was as heart-rending as the weather outside. Zhao Xiaowan, who had just been pushed into the delivery room, was experiencing the most painful and happy moment in her life at the moment, accompanied by a heart-rending roar, with a baby's cry, Zhao Xiaowan and Huang Ke's first child was born.

Outside the door of the delivery room stood Zhao Tinghui and other people, at this time, as his brother Zhao Tinghui's heart was not only anxious, but also with a trace of resentment towards Huang Ke, this brother-in-law is undoubtedly a person who does great things, but he lacks care for his sister, after the Northern Expedition began, except for a trip back ten months ago, Huang Ke almost never called home, wrote a letter, and did not even have a greeting.

The younger sister married Huang Ke, which is a bit like a widow, which makes Zhao Tinghui, who loves his sister, have a trace of resentment towards Huang Ke; In addition, Huang Ke's land policy has damaged a lot of the Zhao family's land in the countryside, and their interests have also suffered huge losses, which makes Zhao Tinghui, who has a very small temperament, have a lot of criticism about Huang Ke.

However, Zhao Tinghui is also an understanding person in the end, Huang Ke is a big tree, relying on Huang Ke's own business has now improved greatly, he and Fu Wangshan are now well-known figures in the business community in Guangzhou, and the business of the two is now surprisingly big.

Half a year ago, Zhao Tinghui also bought an Austin sedan from the United Kingdom and said goodbye to the carriage completely; Although the expensive gasoline has greatly increased the cost of his travels, it is all a symbol of status and status, and besides, he can still afford it.

It is based on this ambivalence that Zhao Tinghui has a very complex emotion for Huang Ke's brother-in-law, unlike his sister, sometimes he and even Huang Ke can lose a battle.

The gate of Boji Hospital was parked in Zhao's Austin car, and the driver, Ah Fu, was sitting on a bench in the hospital corridor and napping; Ah Fu wore a black lapel youth outfit and an equally black hat on his head, which made it easy for him to distinguish himself from other working subordinates.

Near the Austin sedan parked two army-green three-wheeled motorcycles, in the shelter next to it, four or five young men in black lapel national uniforms stood there with the same black umbrellas, the Kuomintang emblem on their chests showed their special status, and the bulging things in their waists and sharp eyes showed that they came from highly disciplined departments such as the army.

In the delivery room, under the careful wrapping of the nurse, the newborn baby stopped crying, and after everything was done, the doctor and nurse walked out of the door and said to Zhao Tinghui with a smile: "Mr. Zhao, the mother and child are safe, it is a boy." ”

Zhao Tinghui breathed a sigh of relief in his heart after hearing this, and he asked eagerly, "Can I go in and see my sister now?" ”

The doctor shook his head and said, "Not yet, just wait a while." ”

Zhao Xiaowan, who was lying on the hospital bed, looked a little weak, she suffered a lot before she became pregnant, and once had a high fever of 39 degrees, but she did not take medicine for the health of the child, and insisted on using physical methods to reduce the fever. After the child was born, she looked at the little life that had just been born with deep affection, for a woman, the child is the greatest wealth in her life, and this sentence is no exception to Zhao Xiaowan.

"Can you show me?" Zhao Xiaowan said to the nurse in a very low tone.

The nurse showed her the child, and Zhao Xiaowan smiled after reading it: "It looks like his father, and it looks as good as his father." ”

The nurse was a little puzzled, apparently she didn't know that the father of the baby in her arms was none other than Huang Ke, the commander-in-chief of the Northern Expeditionary Army. She casually asked, "Why didn't the child's father come?" ”

Zhao Xiaowan said lightly: "He has more important things to be busy with." ”

The nurse wanted to say a few more words, but looking at Zhao Xiaowan's relieved eyes, she didn't say anything more. Zhao Tinghui came in not long after, and after chatting with his sister for a few words, a nurse suddenly knocked on the door and said that someone was looking for him, and that person was at the door.

"You tell him that I don't see anyone now, and I'll talk about it tomorrow."

"But the man said they were sent down by someone from above, so you must go." After the nurse finished speaking, Zhao Tinghui didn't know who would come to him at this time, but the words "from above" made him have to pay attention to it.

"You rest here first, call the nurse if you have something, and I'll come back when I go." After comforting his sister, Zhao Tinghui turned around and walked out.

At the door, two men wearing black lapel national uniforms stood there, and after seeing Zhao Tinghui, a man with a Chinese character face standing on the left stepped forward and said: "Mr. Zhao, we are from the Central Party Department of the Kuomintang, and our leader has something to ask you to visit." ”

"Who is your leader?" Zhao Tinghui didn't know what connection he had with the Kuomintang, and he was a little hesitant.

"You'll know when you go, please Mr. Zhao." The young man with the face of the national character is very polite, but his attitude is also very resolute, Zhao Tinghui is a person who understands current affairs, and he has no reason to refuse; Huang Ke had his private armed forces unarmed and confiscated their guns in order to restrain the privileges of his relatives, which now seems to be an unwise move.

"Okay, then you guys go and call my driver."

"Mr. Zhao, you should take our car." The young man with the face of the national character looked at the weather outside and said.

Zhao Tinghui didn't dare to resist, but he was holding back a fire in his heart, he was a businessman, and the shrewdness of a businessman made him know that a hero doesn't suffer losses in front of him.

After getting on the three-wheeled motorcycles of several men, the square-faced man waved his hand and the motorcycle suddenly started, and Zhao Tinghui, who had not yet sat down, suddenly almost fell, and then the two motorcycles drove towards the road one after another.

Huang Ke is naturally familiar with the name Xue Boling, this small general is the one who annihilated the Japanese army the most in the War of Resistance Against Japan, and he basically participated in the general battle in the War of Resistance, but this person later held on to Hainan Island and was defeated by the People's Liberation Army.

Huang Ke firmly believes that this person's defeat was largely due to the general environment, and his own command and military skills are still worthy of recognition. Now listening to his analysis of the future decisive battle, Huang Ke is very pleased, this person is also worthy of a great responsibility.

"Well, good analysis. Xue Boling, I don't think you are suitable for working in the guard unit, but you are quite suitable for being on duty in the general staff, so you should report to the general staff headquarters from tomorrow. After Huang Ke finished speaking,

"Report to the Commander, I have a request." Xue Boling said to Huang Ke with a cold face.

"Oh? And the request? Huang Ke was a little surprised, "Let's talk about it, I made an exception today, so let's just break it again, you can talk about it." ”

"Yes!" Xue Boling said uprightly: "Commander, if you want to be transferred, I want to go to the front line to be a company commander, or a platoon commander, or even a squad leader, in short, commander, I want to go to the front line." ”

Huang Ke didn't speak, and many people present thought it was incredible, an officer of the guard unit suddenly mentioned that the staff department was something that many people dream of, but the young man in front of him wanted to go to the front line to be a grassroots officer, either this person really had the heart to go to the battlefield, or this person was very smart; In this way, there is no doubt that this petty officer came into the sight of the Supreme Commander.

"Xue Boling, don't make a mistake, do you know what the consequences of disobeying military orders are?" A commander in charge of the guard unit sitting next to him really couldn't stand it, and it was really unbearable for this young officer to be so unreasonable and showy.

Huang Ke waved his hand and motioned to the officer not to say any more, he was willing to believe in his heart that Xue Boling really wanted to go to the front line to fight for his career, who didn't have this kind of impulse of righteousness when he was young?

"Okay, Xue Boling, I'll transfer you to the front line and let you be a company commander, if you can do a good job, I will promote you to battalion commander and regiment commander in the future, if you want to sell dog skin plaster, get out of here as soon as possible."

When Xue Boling heard Huang Ke's words, he felt a lot more angry in his heart, and he immediately said: "Commander, please rest assured, I will definitely not disgrace you." ”

"Well, the courage is commendable, the revolution needs a large number of hot-blooded young people like you, go! Talk to the command, and I'll transfer you to the front tomorrow. ”

After speaking, Huang Ke continued to discuss the question of how to fight a decisive battle, and when everyone thought that Huang Ke agreed with Xue Boling's point of view, Huang Ke said lightly: "If you want me to see, there is no possibility of a decisive battle between the warlord and us, because the warlord's army is idle and there are many factions, and it is almost impossible to organize a large-scale corps decisive battle; Unless we go to the northeast by then, Zhang Zuolin's troops may have a decent battle with us, but it is not necessarily, Zhang Zuolin can't lead the troops, and the troops are also scattered. I just read the enemy briefing, saying that Zhang Zuolin's tanks and planes have all driven over, are they ready to fight us to the death in Wuhan? I told Cui Wu that we don't have a regular armored tank force and air force now; Now that someone has sent it over, we will have tanks and planes after this battle, since Zhang Zuolin wants to send things so much, it is unreasonable for us not to want to? ”

Huang Ke's words amused everyone, and everyone laughed.

"I heard you just talk about how to deal with their tanks? I think it's too much, I will now set a general tone, the battle plan will not be set for Cui Wuding, he himself must be clearer than us on the front line, so I told him that in the battle of Wuhan, we must eat all the main forces of Wu Peifu, and also, scatter Zhang Zuolin's tens of thousands of troops, let him know that he, the generalissimo of the navy and army, is not so easy to be. ”

After speaking, Huang Ke waved his hand and said: "You all go and arrange, the most important thing now is to ensure the logistics support of all armies, go and work, and dismiss the meeting!" ”