Chapter 13: Changing Guards (60)

In the military camp, the sky was boiling, and the entire barracks was full of the smell of wine. The soldiers are rigorous, and it is rare to have such an opportunity to let go of the big drink, and drink and cherish it. When it was getting late, a large number of people were already drunk in the escort camp, but the wine fight continued, and the arrogance of the soldiers and the refusal of the soldiers to admit defeat were also displayed on the wine field. The bridesmaid Liu Ruyan's stored wine has bottomed out, and she is bartending to other stores for emergencies. In the evening, Mo Di handed over the responsibility of accompanying the guests to Luo Wei and the brothers of the Ye Bu Group, and he and Zhou Shiming returned to West Street accompanied by the best man and bridesmaid and the old subordinates who were both police officers and guards.

Early the next morning, Mo Di came to the guard camp to bid farewell to the guests. Most of the guests are going back and forth from where, with only a few exceptions, one is Jin Tongxuan, a family of three going to Shanghai for the New Year. One is Song Erhu, who wants to go to Anqing to inspect the market and want to do Bengbu's business. So, under the introduction of Mo Di, these two groups became all the way with Li Shigui of Anqing. This way was the latest, until everyone was gone, Mo Di arranged for them to have lunch at the Bazhang Building on East Street, and then left by car.

Regarding Jin Tongxuan's return to Shanghai for the New Year, Li Shigui thought that this move was inappropriate, and as a general of the Peaceful National Construction Army, his understanding of the current situation was also different. He believed that because of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the declaration of war by Britain and the United States on Japan, the British Concession in Shanghai was immediately occupied by the Japanese army, leaving only an isolated island in the French Concession, and the Japanese could enter this isolated island if they wanted to, and they could do anything wrong in it. Jin Tongxuan's family stayed in the French Concession, as long as they were able to swallow their anger and not cause trouble, there would be no problem in living safely, but when Jin Tongxuan went back, the situation would be very different, and the appearance of a new face would inevitably attract the attention of the Japanese. Jin Tongxuan nodded and said that he wanted to send his wife and son to Shanghai and come back, and Lihuang's living conditions were a bit worse than those in Shanghai. Li Shigui expressed deep sympathy for Jin Tongxuan, thinking that Lihuang was a bandit area, and he just wanted to make a little bit of elegance, so he became a three-dislike, rather than wasting his youth there, it was better to plan early.

However, Liu Jin, the head of the Gaohebu garrison regiment who appeared in Tongcheng as Li Shigui's follower, did not agree with Li Shigui's statement, and he believed that Jin Tongxuan could consider sending his parents, wife and children to foreign countries, such as British Canada, which was very good. Mo Di asked him where he got this information? Liu Jin told Mo Enemy that after Britain declared war on Japan, the British Concession in Shanghai was occupied by the Japanese, and the British were forced to live in a fixed place, some returned to their hometowns, and some fled to the countryside. There was a British Canadian merchant who came to Gaohebu and found that it was a three-way area, so he settled down, and all these things were told by him. Jin Tongxuan was very interested in this, and said that when he went to Gaohebu, he must visit this Canadian. Liu Jin said that there is no problem, tonight, Chief Li and the two tiger brothers will be guests in Gaohebu together, and it will not be too late to go to Anqing tomorrow.

As for Song Erhu's idea of doing business in Anqing, he got strong support from Li Shigui, thinking that cooperation is mutually beneficial, and he has his own backstage.

Mo Di asked Jin Tongxuan if he had the idea of leaving. Jin Tongxuan nodded and said, in Lihuang, the government is very corrupt, and life is extremely erosive, for example, there is a three-more road in Jinjiazhai, the original meaning is Fu Lu Shou Sanduo, and now it has become a three-more pornography, gambling and drugs. Although Lihuang is not so bad that the people are bored, it is a fact that officials do not take care of the government, and the soldiers do not practice, and those who are officials take pleasure in marrying a little wife and competition. The daily target of a dignified group army is not the Japanese army, but mainly to exterminate the Red Army in various parts of the Dabie Mountains, and the cart is turned upside down. He couldn't adapt to this.

Jin Tongxuan's purpose in joining the national army was to resist Japan, and now the anti-Japanese situation in China is very negative and his future is worrisome. The just-concluded Third Battle of Changsha, with 400,000 troops and 60,000 Japanese troops, although some of the Japanese army's living forces were defeated, but the losses in the ninth theater were several times that of the Japanese army. Jin Tongxuan told Mo Di that if he could go to Canada, he would sign up for the British Canadian Army and fight the Japanese again in Southeast Asia.

Mo Di knows that Jin Tongxuan's thinking is far more trendy and radical than himself, he is a very good chief of staff, but he is a completely unqualified political soldier, or, a simple person like him, is more suitable for development abroad. It's just that from now on, I don't know if there will be a day to meet. Let Mrs. Zhou Shiming take out a piece of fine jade pendant that has been prepared long ago and hang it around the neck of Jin Tongxuan's son as a souvenir. Zhang Xiaohui looked at this jade pendant, a fine jasper, which was worth a lot of money, and wanted to refuse politely, but was stopped by Jin Tongxuan. Jin Tongxuan told his wife that if you take away good things, you don't need to be cowardly, and your friendship with the invincible boss is not only worth a jade pendant.

The wedding is over, and tranquility returns. The very humane Commander Su Tingxun gave Mo Di ten days of marriage leave, so that he could enjoy the happiness of the newlywed. On the day of the end of the holiday, it is Chinese New Year's Eve, followed by half a month's annual leave, and after the Lantern Festival, it is already March 1 of the Gregorian calendar in the 31st year of the Republic of China (1942).

On the first day of work, the Tonglu No Garrison Command received a telegram from the Anhui Provincial Garrison Command to the Chongqing Central Military and Political Department: to remove Mo Enemy from all his duties and participate in the fourth remedial training class of the Sixth Branch of the Central Military Academy in June 31 of the Republic of China, with a make-up training period of one year, from June 1, 1942 to June 1, 1943. Mo Di Tonglu did not have the post of chief of staff of the garrison command, and was handed over to Yan Junlong, the former commander of the 138th Division.

Yan Junlong came quickly, and arrived at the guard camp on the third day after receiving the notice. Seeing Mo Di, Yan Junlong smiled, as if he had seen an old friend, and hugged Mo Di warmly, making Mo Di a black line. Mo Di couldn't figure out when he had such a deep friendship with Yan Junlong after thinking about it.

Holding Mo Enemy's hand, Yan Junlong walked into the guard camp, first reported to Su Tingxun, and then went to Mo Enemy's office, the first sentence exposed the reason why Yan Junlong did this: "Brother Tianzong, saving life is a great grace, just like rebuilding, Junlong must be repaid in this life." Mo Di smiled faintly, how could it be related to saving lives.

Yan Junlong told Mo Di that after the 138th Division Field Supplement Regiment was withdrawn, he went to the Laohekou Fifth War Zone for training, and in January this year, he was transferred to Yichang, where he went to Gan Lichu's Sixth Army for training, and planned to become the colonel and deputy commander. Although Gan Lichu is a native of Rongxian County, Guangxi, he is a graduate of the first phase of Huangpu, a protégé of the Son of Heaven, and his Sixth Army is a descendant of the Central Army, which is very different from the Gui Army. In the reorganization of the Sixth Army this time, Gan Lichu asked the commander of the Fifth Theater for a lot of people, most of whom were Guangxi soldiers. Just when Yan Junlong was complacent and thought that he would enter a wealthy family from now on, he got a news that the fully formed Sixth Army would be a part of the Chinese Expeditionary Force and expedition to Burma. Burma, that is a place to eat life, go to that ghost place to die more and live less, the regimental deputy in the Central Army has always been the position of cannon fodder, which war does not die a string of regimental vice-presidents. Just when Yan Junlong wrote his will and was about to die, a paper order transferred him back to Tongcheng to take over as the chief of staff of the invincible Tonglu Ungarrison Command, wouldn't he be overjoyed and feel desperate.

Mo Di was immersed in the newlywed during this time, did not care about current affairs, did not pay attention to the war situation, and heard about the Chinese Expeditionary Force for the first time, so he was interested, and asked Yan Junlong what troops were incorporated. Yan Junlong told Mo Di that the first unit to be incorporated was Du Yuming's Fifth Army, led by Dai Anlan's 200th Division Mechanics, Liao Yaoxiang's new 22nd Division, and Yu Shao's new 96th Division followed up and had entered Burma. The second group to enter was Gan Lichu's Sixth Army, and when they received the order, they had already left for Yunnan, and if nothing else, they were about to enter Burma. The Sixth Army was under the jurisdiction of Peng Bisheng's 49th Division, Lu Guoquan's 93rd Division, and Chen Mianwu's 55th Division. Yan Junlong belonged to the provisional 55th Division before, which was regarded as a miscellaneous unit in the Central Army, Lu Guoquan Huangpu Phase II, Peng Bisheng Huangpu Phase VII, but Chen Mianwu was an old Cantonese army who graduated from Baoding. In addition, there is Zhang Zhen's 66th Army, which is a newly organized army, and the former 66th Army was the Ye Zhao Department of the Guangdong Army, which was dismantled after the Guinan War. The new formation of the 66th Army can be described as a patchwork of things, under the jurisdiction of Sun Liren's new 38th Division, Liu Bolong's new 28th Division, and Ma Weiji's new 29th Division.

Mo Di looked down on the person in front of him a little, who had just sent away Jin Tongxuan, who wanted to go around to Canada to join the army and go to Myanmar to fight devils, but ushered in a Yan Junlong who was lucky to escape into Yunnan and Burma, and the gap between people is really not small. Everyone has their own ambitions, and they can't be forced, Mo Di didn't give the new chief of staff in front of him any unsightly colors, and completed the handover with a smile throughout the whole process.

After the handover work was completed, the matter of returning to Guangxi was officially put on the agenda.

Returning from Tongcheng to Guilin is not a smooth road. The most comfortable is to take the water. Before the Chinese New Year, Mo Di once took his wife to Nanjing, and the road from Tongcheng to Nanjing was not difficult to walk, and it was very smooth. Next, take the train from Nanjing to Shanghai, take a sea boat from Shanghai to Guangzhou, and then go along the Xijiang River to Wuzhou, and return to Guilin along the Guijiang River. In addition, there is another way, which is to cross the Pinghan line, first to Xiangfan, then enter western Hubei, enter Xiangxi from western Hubei, and then enter Guangxi. This way, although the road is relatively close, but most of the distance needs to be walked, step by step back to Guilin, two months is estimated to be not enough. What's more, he still takes his wife and lets his wife follow him on such a difficult road, unless he is crazy.

In addition, it is to venture into the Japanese war zone, from Anqing to Yueyang there are passenger and cargo ships, there are also mail ships, but after arriving in Yueyang, how to enter Changsha is a huge problem, the battle of Changsha is not long over, there are more ghosts than people in this area, venture in, unexpected situation, unpredictable.

There is another road, which is the old road from southern Anhui to northern Anhui, crossing the Yangtze River from Anqing, entering the southern Anhui boundary, and then taking Huizhou into Shangrao, entering the third war zone, and then from Zixi, Nancheng, Yihuang bypassing Nanchang to Xinyu. From Xinyu, you can take the train to Hengyang, and when you arrive in Hengyang, it is not a problem to return to Guilin.

It seems that the most feasible path is to take southern Anhui.

As soon as he told Su Tingxun about his thoughts, Su Tingxun said: I want to go as soon as possible.

Mo Di carefully asked and knew that from various indications, the Japanese army in Hangzhou was ready to move towards Zhejiang, march along both sides of the Fuchun River, attack Jinhua and Quxian, all the way to the west. At the same time, the Japanese army in Nanchang will also follow the Zhejiang-Jiangxi Railway all the way to the east and join the Japanese army coming from Hangzhou. For this reason, Gu Zhutong, commander of the Third Theater of Operations, has already complained to the Central Military Commission on several occasions. According to Feng Yizhong, deputy chief of the Military Command Department, the Japanese army tried to open up the entire Zhejiang-Jiangxi line through this operation, and then cut off the rear road of Changsha from the Pingzhu line to achieve the strategic goal of occupying Changsha and opening up the Guangdong-Han line. Therefore, the scale of the battle will not be inferior to the Third Battle of Changsha. If you want to go, you must go before the outbreak of the campaign, and once you are involved in the campaign, it will be difficult to get out.

Mo Di nodded, thanked Su Tingxun, and decided to leave Tongcheng and go to Anqing on the second day of Zhou Shiming's participation in the Zhou family's ancestor worship on the Qingming Festival.

The last time he sat on his own ten-round card, Sun Cheng took the guards and brothers to escort the boss for the last time, and from today on, all the personnel of the guard were transferred to the Tongcheng Police Station, and these two ten-round cards also became the property of the Zhou family's shop. In the evening, the car arrived in Anqing and drove into the Hongjing Hotel, not far from the 11th Brigade of the Peace Founding Army, inside, Li Shigui had been waiting for a long time.

Mo Enemy has been in Anqing many times, every time he is here to make trouble, do not make a mess of Anqing and do not stop, this time, but as a passerby into Anqing, only to find that in fact, the city of Anqing is very good, the forest is verdant, the streets are neat, if it is not for the occasional sight of a few Japanese walking by, the whole city is really in peace and tranquility to live and work in peace and contentment. In the spring of the twenty-seventh year of the Republic of China, I entered Jiangbei from Anqing, and I didn't realize that it had been four years, and I really responded to the proverb of Buddhism: come from everywhere, go to where you go, come and go, all in one place. The difference is that when you come, you are alone, and when you leave, you are a couple, and you should no longer be lonely in the future.