At nine o'clock in the evening of January 20, 1934, a group of troops wearing the uniforms of the 56th Division suddenly appeared outside Yanping City.

"Who?" When the soldiers on the city wall saw this team of three or four hundred people, they swaggered to the city gate and asked loudly.

"**That**, don't you even know Lao Tzu? Hurry up and open the door for Lao Tzu! One of the officers at the head scolded loudly on his horse.

The soldiers in the city immediately broke out in a cold sweat, listening to this voice, who else could there be besides Liu Heding, the general of the 39th Army and the commander of the 56th Division. So he hurriedly shouted, "It's the military seat that is back, and the military seat will be later, and I will let people open the city gate and welcome the military seat into the city." The officer on night duty at the city gate hurriedly shouted.

"Don't hurry up yet, be careful and be careful that Lao Tzu will shoot you!" Liu Heding shouted impatiently.

The gate of "Ga Zhizhi" was slowly opened, the suspension bridge was also lowered, Liu Heding raised his horse and spurred the horse into the city, and the officers and soldiers who followed behind poured into the city gate.

Liu Heding had just entered the city on horseback, and the company commander guarding the city gate hurriedly ran over, saluted Liu Heding on the horse, and said loudly, "Report to the military seat!" I don't know if it's a military seat, I welcome it late, and I hope that the military seat will atone for my sins! ”

"Smack!" With a sound, Liu Heding raised his horsewhip, and the company commander was a whip. "! It's against you! It's so hard to open a city gate! Call your people all together! I'm going to teach you bastards what the rules are! ”

The company commander held his shoulder, which had been beaten hotly, and at the same time called for someone to call the brothers to gather. In my heart, I scolded Liu Heding's eight generations of ancestors over and over again, spicy next door, you have no fucking ability, you lost the battle on the front line, and when you came back, you were angry with Lao Tzu. During the day, the defeated troops had already fled back from Jian'ou, and the defenders of the 56th Division in Yanping City knew that Liu Heding had lost the battle in Jian'ou, and the people were panicked.

Soon the more than 100 soldiers guarding the city gate were assembled, and the company commander saluted Liu Heding on the horse again with a standard military salute, and said loudly, "Report to the military seat, the 56th Division, the third regiment, the second battalion and the third company have been assembled, please give a lecture to the military seat!" ”

Liu Heding nodded with satisfaction and said loudly, "All of them, listen to my command!" Throw all your guns in the open space in front of you! As he spoke, Liu Heding held a horsewhip and pointed to a clearing in front of the horse.

The officers and soldiers of the third company were stunned for a moment, which one is this military seat singing! How did we throw away our guns. At this moment, the group of soldiers who followed Liu Heding into the city raised the guns in their hands and aimed them at the soldiers of the third company, and "Carrara" made a sound of pulling the bolt. "Shoot or kill!" Soldiers with guns shouted loudly.

The soldiers of the third company instinctively raised their hands, and the commander of the third company looked at Liu Heding in puzzlement, "Military seat!" Just a little too late to open the door, you will shoot all our more than 100 brothers! Your heart is too ruthless! ”

Liu Heding couldn't wait to go up and slap him twice, how could Lao Tzu have such stupid subordinates. But in the end, Liu Heding still held back the anger in his heart, and sighed helplessly, "Hey! They are bandits from Wuyi Mountain, and even Lao Tzu has been taken prisoner! Their brigade has already arrived outside the city, you have followed Lao Tzu for so many years, Lao Tzu really can't bear to see you die in vain! Go and tell your regimental commander to surrender! ”

Early in the morning of the 21st, the old Jiang Mansion in Nanjing. After Lao Jiang finished breakfast, he saw that Qian Dajun, the director of the chamberlain room and the chief of the guard, was already waiting at the door of the restaurant, and thought that there must be some urgent military situation, so he said something to his wife Song Meiling, and got up and walked out of the restaurant.

Lao Jiang walked to the door, glanced at Qian Dajun, who was nervous, and said coldly, "Go to the study and say!" He strode toward the study.

Qian Dajun followed Lao Jiang into the study, and then closed the door. "Headmaster! Just now, Liu Heding, commander of the 39th Army, Song Jiang, the leader of the Wuyishan bandits, and others jointly issued a telegram, declaring that they would accept the reorganization of the Fujian Rebel Army, the 39th Army would be reorganized into the 14th Army of the Rebel Army, with Liu Heding as the commander, and the Wuyishan Bandit Army would be reorganized into the 14th Army's Reading Division, with Song Jiang as the division commander, and Liu Heding declared that the 14th Army was willing to accept the command of Jin Zhao, the former enemy commander-in-chief of the North Route Army of the Rebel Army. Yanping has fallen into the hands of the rebels. ”

"Mother, Xipi! Liu Heding actually betrayed the central government, he should be killed! Damn it! Niang Xipi! Last night, Lao Jiang had already received the news that the 36th Division had been defeated in Putian and the 56th Division had been defeated in Jian'ou, and today he received the news that Liu Heding had committed treason and surrendered to the enemy and Yanping had been lost. Combined with yesterday's news, Lao Jiang naturally guessed that Liu Heding must have been defeated and captured, and then treason to the enemy, and also dedicated Yanping to the rebels.

"That's not right! How did the Wuyishan bandit army get mixed up with the Fujian rebel army? Lao Jiang said with a frown.

"It may be that they have been secretly in contact with the rebel army for a long time!" Qian Dajun guessed cautiously.

Lao Jiang nodded noncommittally, it seems that the Nineteenth Route Army has long been in collusion with the bandits in Wuyi Mountain, otherwise why would they suddenly surrender to the Nineteenth Route Army at this time! Originally, Lao Jiang thought that the Wuyi Mountain bandits attacked the Central Army just to take advantage of the fire to rob, but now he knew that these bandits had already taken refuge in the 19th Route Army. That's not right! If Cai Tingkai had such a card in his hand, why was it useless during the Battle of Northern Fujian? Could it be that Cai Tingkai deliberately lured the enemy deeper? Wrong! If this is the case, then Cai Tingkai will not be forced to leave the army by Mao Weishou. Even if Weng Zhaoyuan launched a mutiny in Quanzhou and killed Mao Weishou, Cai Tingkai did not come back, obviously this was not planned by Cai Tingkai in advance! Who else would it be if it weren't Cai Tingkai? After the Quanzhou Mutiny, the real power of the 19th Route Army had fallen into the hands of Weng Zhaoyuan and Jin Zhao.

Jin Zhao? This name appeared in Lao Jiang's mind again, and Lao Jiang thought about it carefully and found that both Li Mo'an's 10th Division, Liu Huan's 83rd Division, and Song Xilian's 36th Division were all defeated in the hands of Jin Zhao. A bold idea appeared in Lao Jiang's mind, this Jin Zhao really revealed too many doubts, first a brigade of troops, suddenly turned into an army of 20,000, and then the Wuyi Mountain bandits suddenly announced that they would accept the reorganization and obey Jin Zhao's command. All this is Jin Zhao's conspiracy? As soon as this thought appeared in Lao Jiang's mind, he couldn't suppress it anymore, and the more Lao Jiang thought about it, the more he felt that he had fallen into this trap of Jin Zhao from beginning to end.

"Jin Zhao, what a good student of mine! Niang Xipi! This scoundrel took Lao Tzu's money and beat Lao Tzu in turn! Niang Xipi! Lao Jiang slapped the things on the desk and scolded loudly.

Just when Lao Jiang was furious, Jin Zhao was in the headquarters of Putian City and the two division commanders of the Fourth Army leisurely smoking cigarettes and drinking tea. The Fourth Army was reorganized from the original 49th Division, with two divisions under its jurisdiction, Xie Qiongsheng, commander of the 4th Division, and Nguyen Bao Hong, commander of the 49th Division.

Jin Zhao said with a smile, "Recently, the commander-in-chief appointed the contemptible person as the commander-in-chief of the former enemy of the Northern Route Army, and I once pleaded to the military seat, saying that I am only shallow in learning, and it is really embarrassing to be useful, so please ask the commander-in-chief to choose another meritorious!" But the commander-in-chief resolutely did not allow it, and said that the military order is like a mountain, how can it be changed overnight! The contemptible people have no choice but to reluctantly take office! After the war on the Northern Front, we have to rely on the two division commanders! ”

"Huh! Commander-in-Chief Kim is polite! The commander-in-chief is wise, and the commander-in-chief of the northern front is what everyone expects. Ruan Baohong said with a smile.

Xie Qiongsheng frowned and said in a weird manner, "Senior Commander Jin, I heard that our military seat was arrested in Quanzhou, I don't know what mistakes he made, he was arrested innocently!" Now my brothers are panicking, if Master Jin can't give a proper explanation, it is easy to make a big mess! ”

Jin Zhao's face changed, and he said angrily, "Who is this deliberately spreading rumors!" Division Commander Xie misunderstood, Commander Zhang Yan was indeed arrested, but he was arrested by Mao Weishou. On the night of the 17th, the ungrateful traitor Mao Weishou actually forced the commander-in-chief to leave the army. 18 Mao Weishou called a meeting of the commanders of all armies and divisions to discuss the matter of surrendering to Chiang. At the meeting, Commander Zhang Yan took the case and angrily accused Mao Weishou of being ungrateful and betraying his lord for glory. Mao Weishou was annoyed and ashamed, so he detained Commander Zhang and whipped him! Fortunately, the next night, Commander Weng Zhaoyuan raised troops to quell the rebellion and killed the traitor Mao Weishou before rescuing Commander Zhang. However, at this time, Commander Zhang had to stay in Quanzhou to recuperate due to his anger and blood, coupled with his injuries, and his injuries were too weak to deal with military affairs. ”

Xie Qiongsheng is not a fool, so he naturally won't believe Jin Zhao's nonsense, and he wanted to say something more, but he was pulled by Ruan Baohong, who was quick-eyed next to him, so he just snorted and didn't say anything more. Ruan Baohong said with a smile, "What Master Jin said is right, these are all rumors deliberately spread by enemy agents, and they are not to be believed!" Now that the enemy is present, we should unite and unite with the outside world, and we must not fall for the enemy's tricks! ”

A few people chatted for a while, and Xie Qiongsheng and Ruan Baohong got up to say goodbye. Jin Zhao looked at the backs of the two leaving, and the smile on his face gradually solidified, and then turned into a cold snort!

Zhang Junsong frowned and said, "It seems that this Xie Qiongsheng can't stay!" So as not to cause trouble and Xiao Wall! ”

Jin Zhao snorted coldly and said, "Since you don't know how to lift, then don't blame me for being rude!" In fact, the reason why Jin Zhao saw these two guys was mainly to probe the tone of these two people. Jin Zhao really didn't expect Xie Qiongsheng to be so ignorant. You must know that Jin Zhao and Zhang Junsong's troops in Putian have nearly 15,000 people, and although the Fourth Army is an army, it is still the old foundation of the original 49th Division, and the number has been expanded, but the strength has not increased much, and after a major battle, there are now less than 5,000 people left.

"And what do you want to do with this guy?" Zhang Junsong frowned and asked, once this kind of thing is not careful, it may cause a mutiny, Zhang Junsong is worried that Jin Zhao will be reckless for a while and make a big mistake, so he is kind to remind him. (To be continued.) )