Chapter 13: Changing Guards (40)

Staying in the deep ditch until September 1, Mo Di can finally leave for Tongcheng, as a person who fights the front station, to prepare for the Tonglu No Garrison Command, when to set up the shelf, and when Commander Su Tingxun takes office. During this time, Mo Di was so depressed in the military department that he was forced to the intelligence department by Chief of Staff Yang Zanmo to assist in completing the implementation plan for the three defenses in the jurisdiction of the 48th Army. The job is not difficult, but the difficult thing is getting along with the group of people in the intelligence department. The original quiet and inactive life was increased by Mo Di to do some work, although the people in the intelligence department had absolutely completed the task on their faces, they didn't know how many times they scolded Mo Di in their hearts. The Intelligence Department of the 48th Army is one of the institutions that Mo Di has perfected after leaving Mabu, and the 48 th Army has no such organization, and this organization was specially requested by Tang Ruru to settle Mo Di. During Modi's stay in Mabu, the intelligence work provided a huge reference for the staff of the 48th Army, and after Modi left, this institution was retained. With Tang Ruru's transfer to the Fifth War Zone, the intelligence department also fell into the hands of others, and Mo Di came back after a year, but he didn't know anyone. This intelligence department is an ornament in the deep ditch, and the staff are all related households or transit households, without any intelligence work experience, not to mention that they don't know what other hostile people exist in the deep ditch. As for the work of preventing infiltration, preventing theft, and preventing theft of secrets, some staff members have not even read the basic regulations. When the Japanese spies were caught in Manshuihe, they didn't think there was any crisis, but thought that Mo Enemy was looking for trouble. In their opinion, the 48th Army was above board, the door was wide open, the atmosphere was magnificent, and it came and went freely. If the enemy doesn't come, it will be enough, and when he comes, he will naturally be frightened by my uprightness and leave in a hurry.

The arrival of Mo Di has brought them unprecedented busyness, and the determination of the plan of six checks and three questions has made the Ministry of Intelligence no longer have the quiet it used to be, except for some people who are a little excited to see business opportunities and think that they can exploit businessmen in the name of inspection in the future, the vast majority of people are depressed. Because of Yang Zanmo's supervision, the intelligence department did not dare to passively take up its position, and finally basically implemented the work in place.

It was only at this time that Mo Di was released from the deep ditch shop, and Mo Di swore that from now on, he would learn from the old officials, never meddle in his affairs, never report over the line, and only complete the tasks assigned by his superiors, sweep the snow in front of the door, and no longer ask about the frost on other people's houses.

August has passed, and this month, the world situation has undergone tremendous changes, and Japan's plan to actively seek southward expansion has been made clear by taking advantage of the fact that Britain and the United States are busy dealing with the war in Europe. In order to relieve the worries of advancing southward, Japan took measures to adjust diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union and signed the "Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Treaty" on 13 April. After the outbreak of the Soviet-German war, the Japanese army base camp was again at both ends, and two extremely different opinions appeared, one was put forward at the imperial meeting on July 2, because Germany was advancing all the way, which stimulated Japan's desire to get a piece of the pie in the northern continent, and secretly carried out preparations for war against the Soviet Union. For this reason, the base camp considered transferring at least two divisions from the 11th Army to northeast China to strengthen combat readiness for the Soviet Union. As for the area under national control over China, in accordance with the "Guiding Plan for Long-term Operations against China," it "will not relax its current pressure on China, and will apply all means during this period, especially by taking advantage of changes in the international situation, to strive to resolve the China incident." "The main purpose of the operation is to maintain law and order and to occupy the area to maintain justice, and no large-scale offensive operations will be conducted. If necessary, a short-term surprise attack with the aim of cutting off may be carried out, but on the principle of not expanding the occupied area and returning to the original station. ”

However, this plan was violently countered by the second opinion. The deputies, headed by Shunroku Hatata, the resigned Minister of War have just put on the battle robe again and become the commander of the Chinese Dispatch Army, succeeding Nishio Toshizo, and is responsible for the unified command of China's military operations. Shunroku Hata and Yuki Anami, the new commander of the 11th Army, believed that it was Japan's fundamental national policy to completely destroy China's attempt to continue fighting and to resolve the Chinese problem, and that a sudden reduction in the number of troops dispatched at this time would give the Chongqing government a lease of life.

On August 9, the base camp unified its thinking and decided to abandon the use of force against the Soviet Union, not only not to draw troops from China. Moreover, the Kwantung Army was drawn to try to quickly resolve the war in China in order to pull out its legs to compete with the United States for the Pacific region. In order to remove the increasingly serious threat of the Ninth Theater to the Wuhan area, "destroy the enemy's (referring to the Nationalist Government's) intention to resist the war, and deal a heavy blow to the enemy forces in the Ninth Theater." On August 26, the Changsha Operational Plan "Operation Plus" order was approved and issued.

In order to fully support the 11th Army in frontal operations, the 13th Army comprehensively shrank in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui, and tried not to cause another incident in the area under its jurisdiction. The change of guard of the 48th Army has been completely completed, and except for a military clash at Wangjiang, everything is normal in other areas and has not been obstructed by the Japanese army. Especially in Wuwei County, Yang Chuangqi, who thought it would take a lot of effort, breathed a sigh of relief, and it was really a blessing to be able to occupy Wuwei like this.

It was the time when the Tonglu No Garrison Command was established.

From the deep ditch to Tongcheng, the nearest road is to take the West River to the estuary, and then go upriver from the East River, take the Mozitan, enter the eastern mountainous area of Dabie Mountain, pass the Xiaotian Old Street, go to the river shed Lu Town, pass out of the Dabie Mountain, and arrive at Tongcheng. The total length is about 200 kilometers. Mo Di thought about it, it was better to go to Yuexi Paradise first, and find a car in Yuexi to Tongcheng, saving time and effort.

Sun Cheng's small guard is still equipped with invincible, and the captain of the guard, Sun Cheng, has added a star on his shoulder, lieutenant, put it in the combat unit, at least a deputy company commander. Taking the line of Yuexi, Sun Cheng is willing, first, the road is familiar, second, there are military stations along the way, which can solve the problem of materials and accommodation, and third, he wants to go back to the old army to see, after all, he is a person who came out of the field supplement regiment.

After Shangtu City, it is the steep sand river, and the road forks here, one passes through Huoshan Mountain, and the other goes to Yuexi. The road to Yuexi has a small ferry crossing here for pedestrians to cross, and as for livestock, they have to wade through the water. Sun Cheng got a horse for Mo Di, and the horse couldn't transition.

Here, Mo Di unexpectedly found a person, looking at himself with a smile, Li Baicheng.

"Knowing that you are going today, it is estimated that you will take this road, and I will meet you here." Li Baicheng said.

"I haven't seen you in the deep ditch all these days, you kid is hiding here." Mo Di smiled happily, he didn't expect that when he left, he would be able to see each other.

Li Baicheng took Mo Di and his party to a small camp not far from the ferry, where the smell of meat was strong.

"I've been reclassified!" Li Baicheng said.

"Changing careers?" Puzzled, he asked, "Which line to change?" ”

"In the first battle of the Bayang River, I lost most of my artillery, and when I returned to the deep ditch, I didn't even have half of the equipment. The General Staff reported the battle damage, and the above promised to replenish it, but now the replenishment has not yet arrived, and the artillery is idle and has nothing to do, so they are transferred out to guard the card. Li Baicheng pointed to the soldiers checking the merchants at the ferry. A big check that all pedestrians and caravans must be inspected before they are released. Mo Di glanced casually, and saw a soldier filling his pocket with coins, needless to say, he must have been taking bribes. Li Baicheng also saw it, and said embarrassedly: "When the water is clear, there are no fish, boss, you know." Mo Di shook his head and said: "The purpose of setting up the checkpoint is to deter Xiao Xiao, so that he will not act rashly in the jurisdiction, but I didn't expect it to become a disturbance to the people." Management and management, one tube will die, no matter how chaotic, it is really a science. Be modest, and don't disturb the people too much, and stir up the anger of the people. Even if there is no chaos and someone reports to the military headquarters, you will not be able to eat and walk around. ”

Li Baicheng smiled, the troops directly under the military department, there are few opportunities to make money in ordinary times, once there is such an opportunity, it is strange not to make money, Li Baicheng squinted at Mo Di, and said in his heart, this opportunity is still given by Boss Mo!

"Did you find any contraband?" Mo Di asked.

"Yes." Li Baicheng said: "There is tobacco soil, there is *, there is private salt, and there is medicine. ”

Whoever sets up a card, the favorite is that these contraband come and have a prize, or let it go, and accept a high bribe. If it's all law-abiding businessmen, it's a fart. Mo Di looked at the situation at the checkpoint and knew that it was a dream for these people to find out the Japanese spies, and the Japanese spies were definitely law-abiding businessmen, and the loans would never be in violation of the law. The larger role of these checkpoints is deterrence. As for disturbing the people, as long as it is not excessive, let him go.

After eating the lunch prepared by Li Baicheng, Mo Di continued to move forward, tonight, no matter what, he had to rush to Bao's house, and when he arrived at Bao's house, he would enter the territory of Yuexi, and only then could he serve at the military station. Li Baicheng guarded the card in this place for almost half a month, and became a local snake, and the caravans and porters who came and went gave him face, and rented five more pack horses for the invincible guards, and his walking speed was greatly improved.

When it was dark, I finally rushed to Bao's house, and when I entered the Bao family's military station, Mo Di and the guards had a feeling of being home.

Yuexi was not influenced by the military department, and carried out checkpoints on a large scale, and the management of military stations has entered the norm for all kinds of inspections. The restaurant at the military station provides a simple set meal, one meal, two meat and one vegetarian, no alcohol, in addition, there are additional dishes to choose from. Most of the merchants who stayed in the Bao family did not eat in the restaurant of the military station, but brought their own bowls and packed them back to their rooms to eat. Sun Cheng looked at the additional vegetables, there are chickens and fish, the fish is called Baogong fish, the paper is sold, the chicken is called Cao Cao chicken, small bowls, in addition to tamales, pot soup and so on. Sun Cheng knew that since Mo Di was overturned by the poisonous gas, his respiratory tract was damaged and he couldn't sleep well, if he drank some wine, he would be drunk for three points, so he could fall asleep while he was drunk, so he added a tamale, a Cao Cao chicken, and poured a small bowl of his own small hanging wine, and drank alone with Mo Di.

This place is better than the canteen of the military department! In the military canteen, there is absolutely no alcohol, except for the reception, there is no smell of alcohol. Mo Di is reluctant to go to the military canteen to eat, this is one of the reasons, and the other reason is that the smell of smoke in the military canteen is too strong, or the reason why alcohol is not allowed, people who finish eating will have a cigarette after eating, there is only one exception, that is, Mo Di. Mo Di only had one lunch in the canteen of the military headquarters, and then he didn't dare to go again, so he asked the guards to pack up and go to the staff headquarters. After a few days, he actually got an arrogant evaluation.

Whether he is arrogant or not, Mo Di doesn't know, but he knows that he doesn't have a cold in the canteen of an organ like the military department. Yang Zanmo, who knew that he didn't go to the cafeteria because of physical reasons, joked that he started drinking health wine at the age of 30, and he didn't know how old he was when he drank it. Mo Di replied every time: It is better to drink it than not to drink it! When you can't drink it, stretch your legs and pull it down!