The way of using the army should be like an arm, all five fingers should be opened and thrown out, each finger must be forced, and each finger must be held down at the same time. It's not easy to hold down these fingers, and sometimes you need to use some means in addition to a little brain.

On the whole, the command is the command of this arm, and the command is effective; In addition to formulating a general policy for them, Huang Ke is their own business how to fight, so they can give full play to their initiative in this way. However, this is the case in all dynasties, and the army is easy to form a party after the country is defeated, and it will not be big after a long time.

Therefore, Huang Ke decided to set up a special department to supervise the army, which was above the operational command, and was called the Reserve Cadres Department of the Central Military Commission.

To put it bluntly, the Reserve Cadres Department is an organization that supervises internally and collects intelligence externally, and this organization was established by Huang Ke by personal decision, and when they were established, they did not even know about Mr. Zhongshan in Guangzhou.

The director of the Reserve Cadres Division is Yang Yibing, who carries the rank of major general, and his deputy is Fu Guoqiang, who serves as a company-platoon cadre in the army.

Yang Yibing and Fu Guoqiang can be regarded as the same kind of people, Yang Yibing is only in his thirties, Fu Guoqiang is only a young man in his early 20s, the two of them are a typical pair of angry young people before this, they are extremely idealistic and emotional in their words and actions.

It stands to reason that such a person is not suitable for interfering with the chief officer of the Reserve Cadre Department at all, and is not even suitable for a basic member, because intelligence work cannot only rely on enthusiasm, but also requires careful thinking and calm thinking; if these two points are considered, Yang Yibing and Fu Guoqiang can be said to have failed in all.

But there are always two sides to affairs, and such a person has another advantage, that is, he is loyal enough to the army. Loyalty is what Huang Ke values most, and if an army does not have enough loyalty, no matter how brave and good it is, it will eventually become a bane.

What's more, after several years of training in the southwest to suppress bandits, Yang Yibing has gradually grown from a young man who has no experience in the world, and in the battle to suppress bandits, he has also accumulated a lot of intelligence experience and grassroots intelligence personnel, which are the reasons why Huang Ke takes a fancy to Yang Yibing.

As for Fu Guoqiang, although he has a lot less experience in intelligence than Yang Yibing, Huang Ke has observed him, this person is thoughtful and quick to react, and he is more suitable for this job.

After all these were completed, Huang Ke began the preparatory work of his own cadre department.

In March of the thirteenth year of the Republic of China, Yang Yibing basically surveyed the bandits in the southwest, and tens of thousands of field troops under his jurisdiction stayed in the southwest provinces after repairing under the orders of the headquarters.

Not long ago, the Northern Expeditionary Army's Cui Wu Department conquered Changsha, Hunan, and then the troops marched north with a triumphant song, and fought fiercely with Wu Peifu's troops in the Miluo River.

Huang Ke also moved the headquarters of the Northern Expeditionary Army here, which was convenient for the advance command of the team.

In early autumn, Changsha, Hunan Province was still very hot, and traces of war could be seen everywhere on the streets, and the shelling of large-caliber cannons had left the city full of holes, but fortunately, the war was over soon, and the post-war recovery was also proceeding rapidly.

Yang Yibing took his orderly soldiers to change into civilian clothes and rushed all the way to Changsha, and finally arrived in Changsha without stopping for more than ten days.

The headquarters of the Northern Expeditionary Army is a three-story building in Changsha City, and the white card clearly reads "Command Headquarters of the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Chinese National Defense Force" in black letters.

At night, because of the imported diesel power generation, this place is also the brightest place in the whole Changsha. At that time, there was no arms control in the warlord war, and it was impossible for Wu Peifu's plane to carry out air strikes, so the headquarters building could still be turned on unscrupulously; This situation did not last long, and soon after, in the war with Japan, the intensive bombing taught Huang Ke.

As soon as he arrived at the headquarters of the Northern Expeditionary Army, Yang Yibing's face was already full of dust, and his original clean clothes were all covered with dust.

I just went out and happened to meet Fourteen Boys, I haven't seen Yang Yibing for a long time, and Fourteen Boys went up and greeted him warmly.

"Lao Yang, long time no see!" Fourteen boys went up to a bear hug and picked up Yang Yibing at once.

Yang Yibing also punched a few fists in the chest of the fourteenth boy: "You are a car driver now?" Look at this khaki military uniform, it doesn't look like the groom before? Haha"

Fourteen Tsai patted his military uniform and said, "Okay, let's not talk more, Commander Huang is waiting for you in the office, let's go in first." ”

Yang Yibing shook his head and said, "Wait for me first, I will, I'll go take a shower and change my clothes first, it's too rude to see the commander like this." ”

Fourteen Tsai was surprised: "You kid, after so many years in the bandits' den, your heart is now very detailed." Let's go, I'll take you to the bathroom. ”

After taking a hot shower and changing into a clean khaki military uniform, Yang Yibing packed up his rope and came to Huang Ke's office; High-level military commanders don't need so much courtesy when they see Huang Ke, just bring in a cronie.

Before arriving at Huang Ke's office, Fourteen Tsai first made a phone call through the internal line, and after hearing Huang Ke's permission, Yang Yibing gently pushed the door open and went in.

"Report!" Yang Yibing leaned on his heels and saluted.

Huang Ke stood up and smiled: "Good, good! It's been hard work for you to throw you to suppress bandits in the past two years, and the southwest bandits are now surveyed, and you have contributed a lot. Come on, come on, sit down. ”

After Yang Yibing hesitated for a moment and sat down, Huang Ke handed him a document printed in ink with the word "confidential" printed on it. Opening the envelope outside and opening the first piece of paper, Yang Yibing saw several eye-catching words of "Reserve Cadre Department", and after a general browsing, Yang Yibing frowned.

"Commander, this ......" Yang Yibing was about to speak, Huang Ke handed him a cigarette and said with a smile: "Don't be in a hurry to express your position, you can take a closer look." ”

Yang Yibing read the document from beginning to end again, although the document is only more than 10,000 words, but the content in it is very detailed, from the organizational structure and organizational responsibilities are all clearly written, one of the sentences "collect useful information for the army" made Yang Yibing frown.

Undoubtedly, this is a typical intelligence agency.

"Commander, this ......" This time Yang Yibing did not express his position immediately, he hesitated, and this hesitation came from the heart.

Huang Ke handed a kerosene lighter from the table to Yang Yibing: "The Northern Expedition is going well now, and we will unify the whole country in less than a year." At this time, a serious problem is before us, in addition to facing those warlords, we have to prepare for war with imperialism. At present, our military does not have an intelligence-gathering agency, so it can be said that we are blind in both eyes. ”

Huang Ke exhaled slowly: "Intelligence work is the top priority of the war at all times, and it is related to the victory or defeat of the war. So for this job, I'm going to find someone I trust and have the ability to do it. ”

"......" Yang Yibing didn't speak, he never expected that he would be engaged in intelligence work, this job sounded so profound, he was confused for a while.

"Don't worry, our team is made up of peasants and workers, and they didn't know anything before, but now they don't become a strong team! You first carry the sign of the Reserve Cadre Department, and I will train you a group of talents from the Soviet Union to decipher telegrams, step by step, and do not be afraid. ”

Speaking of which, Yang Yibing has 10,000 reluctances in his heart to accept it, not to mention that he is now a soldier, and a soldier is to obey orders as his duty.

"Commander, I am confident that I will do a good job." Yang Yibing stood up and leaned on his heels.

Huang Ke's expression suddenly became serious, and he waved his hand and said: "Okay, in the name of the Northern Expeditionary Army Headquarters, I will issue you the first order: from now on, collect a list of some people in the Guangzhou government who are trying to purge the party, and pay attention to the officers in each army who are trying to split, once there is an abnormality, you can exercise arbitrary power." ”

"Yes!" Yang Yibing accepted this task calmly, compared to his calm appearance, his heart was already tumbling like a pot of boiling water, this task was difficult.

Yang Yibing said: "Commander, I also have a request"

"Say," Huang Ke said simply.

"I'm going to have to transfer a few people here so I can be handy."

"Okay, you draw up a list, and I will hand it over to the headquarters tomorrow, so that they can be responsible for the transfer, rest assured, as long as it is related to the personnel transfer of the reserve cadre department, I will approve all of them."

The weather in Wuhan in early autumn was not very good, and a dark cloud moved at an even speed on the edge of the skyline, and those who are familiar with the weather changes know that this is the prelude to a storm.

Located in the headquarters of Hanzhong in Wuhan, Wu Peifu's mood is not very good; Previously, after he lost Hunan, he sent a request to Sun Chuanfang for coordinated defense, but what he didn't expect was that Sun Chuanfang categorically refused. Not long after the meeting, the Northern Expeditionary Army began to attack from the direction of Fujian, and Sun Chuanfang only remembered to ask him for joint defense after losing his own territory.

"I'm afraid it's useless" Wu Peifu, who has experienced too many winds and waves in his life, has seen the current situation clearly, the war between the two sides is not at the same level at all, and the 30,000-strong troops dare to attack across the two provinces, and it seems that this day is about to change.

However, Wu Peifu, who has many years of military career, is unwilling to accept defeat like this, even if he is at the end of the road, he also has the determination to continue fighting, not to mention that he still has an army of 100,000 in his hands.