Chapter 14: Advancement (36)

The New Year was very pleasant and lively. The New Year's flavor of his hometown and the strong memories make Mo Di deeply immersed in it and can't extricate himself. In the years of war, it is a very luxurious thing to be able to go home for a year, and after this time after the New Year at home, no one can say when he will be able to return again. The mother of the Mo family could see it, saying that Mo Di had been alone all these years, and finally had a family, even if he couldn't go home for the New Year, he would not be alone.

Along the way, it was full of the smell of the New Year, the fragrance of refining lard, and the faint smoke of firecrackers, which permeated the river valley and could not be dispersed. The carriage walked by the Dongjiang River, looking at the familiar customs along the way, Mo Di began to chatter endlessly to introduce various folk customs and family rules to Zhou Shiming, until the car entered the col and entered the gate of the Mo family, and there was no intention of stopping. At first, Zhou Shiming was still very novel, but later I heard that Mo Di seemed to be introducing himself on the surface, but in fact, he was reminiscing, reflecting, and trying to let him re-enter it. Hehe smiled, no longer listened to Mo Di's nagging, ran to work with his five younger siblings, and listened to Mo Di's mother arrange work. Looking at the departing Zhou Shiming, Mo Di suddenly lost the object of listening, and was upset, but he was soon attracted by the old man of the Mo family.

Mo Di was excited because he was able to go home for the New Year, and the family was even more excited because Mo Di and his wife were able to go home for the New Year, and the underage sixth brother was born after Mo Di joined the army, looking at the strange and familiar third brother, with a curious face. Uncle is still single, I don't know what the reason is not to marry a wife, some people say that he has practiced children's skills, afraid that marrying a wife will break the skills, and some people say that he is practicing kung fu as a wife, no matter what the outside says, anyway, it is a fact that the uncle of the Mo family does not marry a wife, and he usually follows the old man of the Mo family. Looking at Mo Di's small body, Uncle Mo shook his head, thinking that the sturdy guy back then, Mo Yongfu, who was invincible all over Yongning Prefecture, actually became such an image, which was really annoying.

In the second year of junior high school, at the beginning of the year, the two daughters also returned to their mother's house on the mountain, and to everyone's surprise, the second son-in-law Yang Litian also came to the Mo family. Seeing the group coming from the side of the field from a distance, Mo Di smiled, his second brother-in-law was quite ostentatious, dressed in a military uniform, with the rank of colonel, and the small golden five stars on his shoulders were shining.

Mo Di has never seen his brother-in-law, who is quite strange in his eyes, but he is quite close in his heart. As soon as they met, I heard Yang Litian laugh and explain: "I thought that Tianzong would come back in a military uniform, but after thinking about it for a long time, I decided to get a military uniform and come back to cooperate." You know, Tianzhong boy is wearing such civilian clothes, why do I wear it rigorously, I am really cocooned. ”

Mo Di laughed, took Colonel Yang's hand and walked into the house, found a set of Mo Lao Wu's long shirt and came out, and changed it for Colonel Yang.

"Tianzhong, after this training, the major general is hopeful!" Colonel Yang asked.

Mo Di nodded and said, "If it weren't for this star, I wouldn't have come all the way back from Anqing, do you know how much I lost this year." ”

"What loss?" Colonel Yang asked puzzled.

"Economic loss." Mo Di said: "The salary alone is a lot less, not to mention other supplements and extra money." ”

Colonel Yang laughed and said, "Sharpen the knife and don't cut the wood, and if you are promoted to general, you will scrape it back." ”

There are two colonels in the family, and the old man of the Mo family can't close his mouth, and he invited a large number of so-called celebrities in Baishou to start the New Year as long as they are free, and even the people of the Qidao Zhengjia who are ten miles away have not forgotten. Some people with ulterior motives know that the Mo family not only has two colonels, but also a Mo Lao's five bosses, and they can't wait to get in touch with each other, sharpen their heads, and try their best to come to the Mo family and have a relationship. Mo Di hates socializing with people the most in his life, he is unwilling to go out to socialize, he has a dead face, and the smile he finally squeezes out is not much better than crying. Fortunately, Yang Litian gave face, and he was also very good at coming to things, and pulled Mo Di to usher in the send-off together, which made Old Man Mo feel decent.

The open-door banquet that was opened at noon was drunk until night, and the guests were sent away before it came to an end. When the daughter and son-in-law return home, it is the real reunion, the family settles down, around the red carbon basin fire, the men circle the women and chat about the topics they are interested in.

The sixth brother Mo Yongfan pestered Mo Di to become a soldier, Mo Di said a word, so that the sixth brother directly dispelled the idea, Mo Di asked him to finish high school, and then go to the entrance examination, first admitted to the sixth branch of the Guilin Central Military Academy, then to the Army University, and then to become a soldier. The sixth brother pouted and said that he just didn't want to study so he wanted to be a soldier. Mo Di told him that he thought the same way when he read books, but after more than ten years, he still came back to study honestly, and after the New Year, he would study in Guilin for a year, and then go to Chongqing to study for a year. The old man of the Mo family was very excited, and immediately used this as an example to educate, the so-called everything is inferior, only reading is high, cliché, and it is not uncomfortable to listen to the family's eyebrows.

The only one who dared to speak when the old man was emotional, only Mo Di didn't listen to what the old man said at all, and talked to Yang Litian. The new 19th Division, where Yang Litian belongs, has been withdrawn from northern Qinbei to garrison Laibin, and the 46th Army, the higher level, has also placed its garrison in Liuzhou, except for Chen Zhengxin's special mission directly under the 46th Army, which is still on the border of Longzhou, and the two main divisions have all returned to defense. Gan Chengcheng, the new commander of the 175th Division, was stationed in Liuzhou, and Luo Huo, the commander of the new 19th Division, was stationed in Qianjiang. Zhou Zuhuang no longer served as the commander of the 46th Army, but was promoted to the deputy commander of the 16th Group Army, the commander of the 46th Army was served by Li Xingshu, and the deputy commander was Huang Heling.

Yang Litian still served as the commander of the 56th Regiment, and since the Battle of Guinan, the 56th Regiment has been on the defensive, with no combat missions, relatively speaking, it is relatively easy. The reason why he returned to Liuzhou was not for strategic reasons, but because the railway was currently only accessible to Laibin, and the grain from northern Guizhou could only be transported to Laibin, and then transported to the south, which was costly.

The 31st Army, another army of the Sixteenth Army, went further. Before the Second Changsha War, the 31st Army was transferred to Hengyang. Former army commander Wei Yunsong believed that the defense of the south should not be abandoned lightly, and Changsha's military strength was sufficient, so there was no need to go far and wide. Because of his disagreement with the Central Committee, he was promoted to deputy commander-in-chief of the 16th Group Army, and the post of commander of the 31st Army was held by He Weizhen. The troops were immediately transferred to southern Hunan and served as peripheral interception tasks during the Second and Third Changsha Wars. Speaking of the 31st Army, Mo Enemy is no stranger, the 31st Army has two divisions, the commander of the 188th Division is a good friend Hai Jingqiang, when he returned to Guilin, Hai Jingqiang went to the Indian Ramgarh Defense Area, to participate in the Chinese Expeditionary Force General Training Course for training, after returning in August, it was too late to fight with Mo Enemy, so he rushed to the Hunan and Guizhou border area to resist the enemy. The commander of the 131st Division, Kan Weiyong, was not familiar with it, but his chief of staff knew that it was his old subordinate Zhao Guolong. The 131st Division has been stationed in the south of Hengyang, holding the first line of defense on the Hunan line.

"It seems that we really don't have much oil and water in Guangxi, and even the Japanese look down on it and disdain to occupy it." Mo Di said with a smile.

Yang Litian shook his head and said, "It's not that the Japanese look down on it, it's that they can't take it." In the later period of the Guinan War, no fewer Japanese died at the hands of the militia than in the hands of the regular army. The Japanese dared to occupy Guangxi, unless he killed all the Guangxi people, otherwise, he would be killed by the Guangxi people. ”

Mo Enemy laughed, the people of Guangxi are simple, but they are not weak, the Japanese dare to come, so he will not come back. Throughout the years of the Anti-Japanese War, whether it was because of the strategic needs of the Japanese or something else, it was the first time that the Japanese were able to retreat from the land they had already occupied.

"After you withdraw from Guinan, what will happen to Guinan's defense?" Mo Di asked.

"Give it to Cai Tingkai." Yang Litian said.

"Gao guy Cai! Can he do it? Mo Di sighed.

"It's okay, it's okay, it's okay." Yang Litian said with a smile: "The area around Qinlian in southern Guizhou is the territory of Guangdong, and our army in Guangxi, even if we have the heart to defend, we must only get the consent of the Cantonese people." ”

"Isn't it already under the unified management of the Fourth War Zone?" Invincible.

"There are policies above, and there are countermeasures below." Yang Litian said: "Gao Lao Cai's person, anyone with a discerning eye knows what role it is, and Lao Jiang will never be able to pee in the same pot, it is not strange that Yang Feng Yin is violated." However, the high-ranking Cai Youyan said that if the Japanese army entered Guinan from the Qinfang area, he would automatically give up his control of Qinlian and hand it over to the Guangxi government. ”

"No wonder the entire 16th Group Army is heading north, there is such a reason." Mo Di figured it out, but asked puzzledly: "Then why did you still leave Chen Zhengxin in Longzhou?" ”

"That's Zhou Zuhuang's conspiracy." Yang Litian said: "I want to provoke the Japanese and let the Japanese enter from the Qinfang area, so that they can easily get the Qinlian land promised by the high-ranking Cai." ”

Mo Di laughed again, the thoughts of the big guys turned out to be so dirty, it was really not enough for outsiders. It seems that under the deliberate teasing of Zhou Zuhuang and Chen Zhengxin, the Qinlian area will no longer belong to Guangdong in the near future.

In the third year of junior high school, the sons-in-law went home separately, Mo Di and Mo Lao Wu also left the Ao with Yang Litian, in Yongfu, the two people broke up, Yang Litian went back to Luo Jin's house, and the Mo brothers went to Guilin, the fifth day of the first month, Mo Di wanted to rush to the school, and Mo Lao Wu also planned to open on the sixth day of the first month. In the past two days, I want to invite some business friends in Guilin to have dinner and start the New Year, and I can't ignore it, Zhang Yongfa, Huang Changdian, Xiong Tonghe, Li Anxiang and other business owners have good personal relations with Modi, and they often go to relatives.

In Yongfu, take the train from Yongfu to Guilin, there are very few people on the car, empty, people are still enjoying the atmosphere of the New Year, there is no escape, only the Mo brothers, one for the future, one for profit, only left home early.

The wind blew in through the crack in the window of the train, like a knife, and Mo Ji stood his palm on the edge of the window, trying to block the cold wind blowing in, or wanted the cold wind to stimulate the excitement. Zhou Shiming pulled Mo Dou's hand back and sat on the leeward side of the train card seat. The train's air whistle hissed, and a cloud of smoke poured out the window, and after rolling past the train, only the sound of the wheels touching the rails could be heard under the seats, monotonous and repetitive.

Year after year, year after year.