Chapter 12: The Aftermath of War (52)

The reunion with Gong Qingyuan, Mo Di's excitement was overflowing, and the sentence "Brother Gong! "A hug, everything is in plain sight, I haven't seen you for a few years, Gong Qingyuan is obviously old, and he is about forty when he counts, and it is the time for a mature man.

"Accident, accident!" Gong Qingyuan looked at Mo Di and kept repeating the word in surprise. He knew that when he came to the 48th Army again, he would meet Mo Di sooner or later, but he was able to meet Mo Di on the first day, which was unexpected. As a cadre sent by the military department, Mo Di came to the 138th Division as the director of the General Staff Office, which also made Gong Qingyuan greatly appreciated, believing that the 48th Army was worthy of being a heroic army in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.

Together with Li Benyi and Mo Di, who went to the west of Danjiamiao to greet Gong Qingyuan, Cui Jian, the former chief of staff of the 138th Division and the current deputy commander of the 138th Division.

It can be seen that Deputy Division Commander Cui's welcome to Gong Qingyuan is from the bottom of his heart, perhaps because of his arrival, he was able to rise to the next level. After Mo Di expressed his enthusiasm to Gong Qingyuan, Deputy Division Commander Cui's attitude was as good as Mo Di.

As for this chief of staff, who had not achieved enough things and had more than enough failures, not only was he not demoted but promoted to deputy division commander, not only could he not understand it, but even Li Benyi thought that there was someone above. When Li Benyi was in the 138th Division, this person had not yet arrived, and the chief of staff at that time was Su Tianyi, and after Su Tianyi was transferred to the Fifth Theater as the commander of the 13th Guerrilla Column, the deputy division commander Chen Dang concurrently served as the chief of staff, and then Chen Dang was transferred to the deputy commander of the Anhui Provincial Military Administrative Region, so I don't know where to transfer a Cui Jian.

It has been three days since Li Ben arrived at Danjiamiao to take office, and during these three days, he exchanged views with Deputy Division Commander Cui several times, and got only one answer: obey Shangfeng's arrangement. As for Deputy Division Commander Cui himself, he doesn't seem to have any opinions at all. Because in the same 48th Army, Mo Di has a certain understanding of this Chief of Staff Cui, this is an old man of the Gui family, when the Fourth Army was established in the 25th year of the Republic of China, Cui Jian served as the colonel of the 15th Army Staff Office of Xia Wei, and he stayed in the colonel class for a long time than himself. Something happened to the 138th Division, and not only was he not held accountable, but was promoted to deputy division commander, and his rank was also raised by one level to become a major general. If something goes wrong, it is a demon, and Mo Di believes that this abnormal promotion and promotion should indicate that the newly released Major General Cui is leaving.

Looking at Gong Qingyuan and Cui Jian, who were walking in front, Li Benyi quietly asked Mo Di: "Tianzong, do you say that the enthusiasm of this Deputy Division Commander Cui is real or fake?" ”

Mo Di smiled and said: "I think it's true feelings, after all, the arrival of Lao Gong made him take a big step up, and this Cui deputy has stayed on the rank of colonel for a long time, still above me." ”

Li Benyi laughed and said: "It's not the same thing, he is an old colonel, and he was promoted to colonel a little earlier than me, he graduated from the Guangxi General School Seminar, and he is really an old qualification." It's just that this person is a little stubborn and won't be flexible, I have been talking to him for a few days, and he is just a sentence back and forth, and he obeys the arrangement of the chief. Think about it, in the eastern part of Dabie Mountain, where there is a mixture of Japanese and pseudo-flowers, if you obey the arrangement of the commander in everything and do not have any opinions of your own, how can you flexibly solve practical problems. ”

Mo Di looked at the two backs in front of him, the age is about the same, Cui Jian is slightly longer, and the height is about the same, Gong Qingyuan is not fat, Cui Jian is even thinner, and he is a little stilted, walking with obvious external figures, and his feet are also dragged like an old man, this kind of spiritual head person, who was in charge of the 138th Division alone, can imagine that the 138th Division has come to this situation, and it is not surprising. "The people who grew up in the era of Lu Dudu have one characteristic, obedience and blind obedience, you should have more contact with the people of that era than me, and understand it more deeply. In my opinion, the people trained by Lu Dudu's training are not very good as chief officers, but they are very competent as subordinates. I heard Chief Wang Zanbin say that ten years ago, the best match in Guangxi's military circles was the main and local co-followers of Baoding. ”

"You and I are not from Baoding, and we are not the same as the Lord." Li Benyi retorted with a smile, he had heard this sentence, but he was not convinced, Baoding Military Academy was already a thing of the past, and the Baoding faction, which was once extremely powerful in Guangxi, was also diluted with the death of General Liao Lei, and the Huangpu Department and the Central Department are being fully replaced.

Mo Di smiled, he didn't get a diploma, and he was not a department.

"It's tiring to partner with this kind of person." Li Benyi said: "If you don't push, you can't move, you push and move." However, there is also an advantage, the orders of the upper peak are absolutely executed and unconditionally executed. ”

"That's enough!" Mo Di said: "Brother Li Guang, you have to figure out your own positioning, you are not his work partner, but his superior, your orders, he unconditionally executes." ”

"Ahh Li Ben paused for a moment, and laughed, but this is not the truth.

The reception banquet held at the division headquarters of Danjiamiao was very characteristic of Li Benyi, and Li Benyi paid attention to the joy of officers and soldiers. Gong Qingyuan's first batch of escort troops were two companies, so the reception banquet became several main commanders of the division headquarters, and the two new companies were connected to the wind. The reception banquet was organized by Cui Jian, the deputy division commander, and he ate poon choi, which is the legendary one-pot meal, with vegetarian dishes as the base and meat dishes as the noodles. The meat dish is not complicated, just a large piece of pork. One class is one pot, orderly, there is no wine, and rice is served openly. Chairman Li Benyi's banquet dishes are exactly the same as those of the soldiers, and it is also a big basin, the only difference is the dining conditions, the soldiers' banquet has no table, not even a stool, a large basin is placed on the ground, around the big basin, squatting in a circle to eat. Chairman Li Benyi had a table and chairs, and in addition to the previous four people, there were also Dai Jiajin, director of the division's political department, and Liu Rongchun, director of the division's logistics department. In addition, the two company commanders brought by Gong Qingyuan also sat at the bottom of the seat.

In less than five minutes, each class stood up and left, the poon choi was eaten cleanly, and each person's dishes and chopsticks were not stained with oil at all, and they were neatly placed in the basin, as if they had not been used. This scene stunned Mo Di, and asked the company commander next to him, is it like this every time he eats? The company commander told him that Liu Qinglong's regiment had been following Li Benyi in Mingguang for the past two years, and eating CDs was Li Benyi's minimum requirement. Mo Di shook his head, compared to Li Benyi's strict management of the army, his own field supplement regiment was a little slow, and even said that there was some banditry.

After eating five minutes longer than the soldiers, Li Benyi also put down the dishes and chopsticks in his hands, and ate without saying a word, Li Benyi did a very good job, in his opinion, the barracks are the barracks, and in the barracks, all actions must be like a soldier. Mo Di shook his head secretly, fortunately he was not Li Benyi's subordinate, otherwise, this kind of request would drive him crazy. The two company commanders were relieved when they heard the command to stand up after eating, and hurriedly said goodbye and wanted to return to the company headquarters. After letting go of the two company commanders who were nervous, the group returned to the war room of the division headquarters, made a pot of tea, and talked slowly.

"How much grain can Gong Shenzuo raise in Bengbu this time?" Liu Rongchun, director of the logistics department, asked: This was originally the commander of the 827th Regiment of the 414th Brigade, but after the brigade-level establishment was abolished, because of his age, he entered the division headquarters as a new post, and the headquarters was led by Yan Junlong and reorganized into a field supplement regiment.

"The grain in Bengbu is cheaper than that in Lu'an, and the money sent by the division was all bought, about 100,000 catties." Gong Qingyuan said: "It's just that the transportation from Bengbu to Huoshan is not cheap, and even the freight and cost will go up." ”

"That's better than being in Shucheng, where you can't buy food even if you have money." Liu Rongchun said: "After 100,000 catties of grain are sent to Shucheng, they can be eaten for more than a month!" Yesterday, I received a telegram from Colonel He Shusheng, the commander of the 412th Regiment in Shucheng, that the grain in the warehouse can be eaten until tomorrow at most, and the morning after tomorrow morning, there will definitely be no food. The first 20,000 catties of food can be regarded as a solution to my urgent need, not a joke, I am really going hungry. ”

"100,000 catties of grain can only be used as a buffer, first, there is no money, and the group army can only have this rescue, a month later, if we still can't take down our station, starve to death is also to blame." Li Benyi said: "The 138th Division, which gave us the jurisdiction of four counties, is now only two, and throughout the whole territory of Anhui, only our 138th Division is getting narrower and narrower." I want to hear what I think of the next step, sit back and eat, wait for relief from above, or strike decisively and regain lost ground. ”

Hearing Li Benyi's words, everyone dared not make a sound. The last time the 413th Regiment lost in Tongdong, even the 414th Regiment lost Lujiang, and the three regiments were crowded together in Shucheng. Shucheng is the jurisdiction of the 412th Regiment of He Shusheng, and it is more than enough to feed one 412 regiment, but it cannot feed more, although there is not much left in the 413 regiment, the total number of the three regiments is still considerable. The new Liu Qinglong 413 Regiment is a full regiment, once all are in place, where will they stay? Huoshan or Shucheng?

The orders of the 21st Group Army and the Anhui Provincial Garrison Command were clear and problematic, the three main regiments of the 138th Division, the 412th Regiment Shucheng, the 413th Regiment Wuwei, and the 414th Regiment Lujiang. There is no problem with Shucheng, the problem is Lujiang and Wuwei, in addition to the 414 regiment in Lujiang, there is also a Wang Zhanlin regiment of the Peaceful Founding Army. And in Wuwei, when the 413th Regiment came to Wuwei in October last year, it can be described as the smoke of gunpowder on the 72nd Road Anti-King and 81st Road, there are guerrilla advance troops, there are peaceful founding army, there are New Fourth Army, there are bandits, there are Jiang Ba, and there are Japanese. The 413th Regiment was caught in the middle of it, and it was difficult to breathe, let alone ask the local government to bear the military rations and salaries. No wonder he was disgraced, and even Mo Di sympathized.

"My idea is to save food as much as possible, reduce two meals to one dry and one thin, and as for the vegetables, don't eat them if you can." Cui Jian's words were full of helplessness.

"No matter how much you save it, you won't be able to eat this food for long, even if you can delay it for another month, what if you finish that month?" Li Benyi asked.

There was a dead silence.

Mo Di couldn't help it, and said: "Provincial, it's not a good way, you still have to find a way to get it." ”

"I also know that saving is better than earning." Cui Jian lamented: "The question is how to earn!" ”

"How do you earn it? It's not easy to have a gun and someone, it's great, grab it! Mo Di smiled.

"Robbing whom?" Gong Qingyuan is happy, Boss Mo is still the same Boss Mo back then, nothing has changed.

"The first priority is to rob the Japanese, the second priority is to rob the peaceful founding army, the third priority is to rob bandits, and the fourth priority is to rob illegal traders." Mo Di moved his fingers, almost a fist.

Gong Qingyuan nodded, pulled Cui Jian, and said, "Deputy seat, you are more familiar with this area, introduce the situation of the enemy and me in the circle of Chaohu, and let's think about where to start the robbery." ”

"Do you really want to rob it?" Cui Jian asked in surprise, he thought that Mo Di was joking.

Li Benyi also looked at Gong Qingyuan, he had been a soldier for nearly 20 years, fighting with dignity, killing people innocently, and he had never done such a dirty thing.