After a round of patrol and politely declined the banquet of Changshan County Magistrate and other officials who rushed to the news, Liu Rulin and Ma Zhizhai went to the city to visit Fang Youchun's parents and gave them a sumptuous gift from Hangzhou. Then Wu Ming and his wife were brought to the banquet.

The two old men and Fang Zhichun accompanied each other for a while and apologized and left. Only then did the three brothers have the opportunity to speak well.

"I heard from Brother Youchun that you built a training base at the foot of Phoenix Mountain, more than 30 kilometers north of Zhaoxian Town? How did you build it into such a remote mountain?"

As the military chief of the security forces in the province, Liu Rulin is naturally very interested in this.

Wu Ming stood up and poured wine for them. After that, he poured it on himself and replied: "I will first state that it was not built by me. I just provided the design drawings. It was built by Maoliangwu militia and local She brothers. It was a little far away. However, the terrain there is complex and diverse, easy to keep secret. The local villagers are simple and enthusiastic, with sufficient food and worry-free logistics. However, the changes have been too great in recent months, and I really can't pull the troops in and practice well."

Ma Zhizhai introduced with appreciation: "Brother Rulin probably doesn't know that it's actually only a few kilometers from Maoliangwu to Fenghuang Mountain. The road is better than ordinary roads. Maoliangwu is not the Jedi that plagues frequently occurred back then. There are thousands of acres of fruits and melons. Not only are there two mines, but there are also brick and tile factories, iron wire factories, wood factories and grey factories. In the past two years, the chickens, ducks, rabbits and goats sold by Maoliangwu have become famous in western Zhejiang. I heard that it has opened a large-scale cattle farm and horse farm at the confluence of several small rivers. Even the girls in Changshan City are rushing to marry into Maoliangwu, so rich!

Wu Ming pursed his lips and gave Ma Zhizhai a blank look: "When I brought three thousand victims into the land to open up the land, you said a lot of sarcastic words."

Ma Zhizhai was a little embarrassed, shook his head with self-deprecatingly, and raised his glass to drink. When Wu Ming was transporting the victims to Maoliangwu, he always felt that it was a huge burden. He really didn't expect Maoliangwu to have this earth-shaking change today.

Liu Rulin asked with a smile: "The Mao Liangwu militia is brave. Everyone in the province knows that the two hundred militias in Mao Liangwu rushed to Kaihua City and bravely repelled thousands of Communist troops. I wonder how this militia is now?"

"It's too exaggerated, right? At best, it's a small group of guerrillas!"

Wu Ming concealed most of the time and explained: "Their militia still retained more than 100 people, nearly half of which were used to protect the caravans, but men aged 16 to 35 in the village had to take time to participate in military training, divided into 100 people, taking turns every month, and never interrupted throughout the year..."

"Since the second half of last year, I sent an old brother from a platoon to be instructors, and it also rotated once a month, so the combat effectiveness of the Maoliangwu militia is still good. If something really happens, it will immediately sound the horns and gather 500 guns in half an hour. With the help of the She brothers in the surrounding areas, Maoliangwu is still safe compared to the surrounding towns."

Liu Rulin sighed loudly: "Awesome! I was quite apologized for pulling out one of your battalions, but now I feel relieved. You kid are not short of soldiers. Even if you pull out one of your battalions, I believe you will be able to make up for the gap soon. With a little training, you will be a good group of soldiers."

Wu Ming's face was full of resentment and helplessness. Ma Zhizhai couldn't help laughing out loud after seeing it.

Sighing helplessly, Wu Ming said sincerely: "Two brothers, don't think I'm ignorant. Although I feel uncomfortable with this change, I can understand... Xie Zixuan is a rare general in the Zhejiang army. He is steady and skillful, and has profound strategies. All the officers in the first battalion under his command are basically brought out by me..."

"This army has participated in the cruel encirclement and suppression operations in northern Fujian, and its combat effectiveness is great. Xie Zixuan took a battalion of old brothers to Hangzhou, which can also help you brothers. More importantly, if you are a large provincial capital, you don't have an elite armed force loyal to you, so how can you do it? I guess this change may be the exchange of interests made by the brothers with the control of the teaching group and Chairman Lu Diping?"

"Secondly, Lao Xie left with an elite main battalion, and transferred Chen Zhaoxian under my command to the Fourth Regiment together with his second battalion to vigorously promote Chen Zhaoxian as the regiment commander. I am afraid that it was also for the purpose of attracting Deputy Commander Tang and other local forces in Quzhou to restrain Lu Zhongxiu? I have no objection to this. Chen Zhaoxian is a graduate of Baoding after all, and has received formal military education. Although he is a bit arrogant, he dares to fight and fight, which is worthy of support. It is still reassuring that he will guard the Jiangshan Defense Zone."

Liu Rulin and Ma Zhizhai looked at each other, and were deeply surprised by Wu Ming's keen eyes and political insight.

No matter what their reaction was, Wu Ming poured a glass of wine and put down the cup heavily:

"On New Year's Day evening, the Japanese attacked Shanhaiguan and occupied them completely two days later. Yesterday, news came from the radio that the Japanese army increased their troops in Tianjin. The 20,000 Japanese troops coming from outside the pass attacked the Great Wall defense lines such as Jizhen, Xuanzhen, etc. Although Song Zheyuan's troops topped the top, the young marshal who had quit opium addiction also claimed to resist to the death, but I was very pessimistic about the development of the situation."

"To be honest, the two elder brothers said that I have no confidence in Song Zheyuan and Zhang Xueliang. Even if we can reach a peace agreement with the Japanese government this time, North China will sooner or later be trampled by the Japanese army. At that time, if there is another Battle of Songhu in the east, can we still escape?"

Liu Rulin and Ma Zhizhai almost remembered the Battle of Shanghai in less than a year. Although they may not agree with Wu Ming's pessimistic analysis, the smiles on their faces were gone, and they were replaced by deep thoughts and worries.

Wu Ming continued: "My training ideas and methods are different from others. With our current poor quality of recruits, it is absolutely impossible to become a truly qualified soldier without a year, and it also requires a hundred times more effort and consumption. Therefore, I would like to ask the two elder brothers to support and trust and let me stay here for two more years. I will definitely train a strong army to repay you and the country and nation!"

"Don't believe those who talk big and boast about clamoring for three months to develop elite soldiers. That's ignorance and arrogance. They only know how to fight for power and profit, and attract attention. They don't understand military training and the laws of war at all. These people are misleading the country and the people!"

Liu Rulin was deeply moved and nodded and agreed solemnly: "Okay! As long as I am still in power for one day, I will spare no effort to support you. Don't worry! Chief Ma will stay for a while and form the Zhejiang Encirclement and Suppression Front Command, clear the relationship between all parties, and distinguish power and responsibilities. The Quzhou City North Ordnance Station will station a company's guards and soldiers for a long time. I will come down from time to time to see. As long as you do well, I will promote you and support you."

"Thank you, Brother Liu!" Wu Ming stood up and raised his glass with both hands: "The future is long, what are the instructions? The two brothers only need one sentence."

The three of them stood up and drank it all. As soon as they sat down, Ma Zhizhai started to attack again: "Brother, according to the latest regulations issued by the provincial government, the provincial security forces have eliminated old military uniforms from this year and have changed their gray new military uniforms one after another. The pine green military uniforms of your unit must be changed back. The entire ** team only has two direct divisions of the Central Army equipped with yellow and green new military uniforms. Other regular troops are still gray military uniforms except for generals and officers. Your unit cannot be specialized. As for buying a vehicle yourself, it is alas! I don't know what you think. Importing cars well will be fancy to you."

Wu Ming's persistence ultimately could not affect his strong and backward traditional thinking. Under the huge external pressure, he had to nod and agree silently and explain to his four Dodge cars:

"Originally, I bought five cars, one for Brother Fang, one for Director Zhou Wenyan of the Quzhou Party Department, and three were equipped with troops... One of them was distributed to the regiment headquarters for public use, and two were converted into ambulances for the health team. You know the one I used is still on the security guard sign, and the cars are sprayed with irregular green, gray and brown yellow. This pattern has now begun to be popular among European and American troops. It is called camouflage. Its function is to facilitate the concealment and disguise of the army, so I don't plan to change it. However, the military uniform will be changed, but I am so poor that I can't let us take off and wait until the new military uniform is here, right?"

Liu Rulin and Ma Zhizhai laughed loudly and discussed for a moment. Since the new regiments are currently changing clothes, they cannot issue new military uniforms to Wu Ming's army in a short period of time, so they decided to allocate a clothing fee as soon as possible so that Wu Ming can purchase it locally in Quzhou. The military uniforms produced by the original Quzhou Clothing Factory are also good.

Where can Wu Ming be cheaper? The clothing factory built by his wife is waiting for the order to start. He asked anxiously when he would pay, and raised his glass again to sincerely thank him.

The next morning, he sent Liu Rulin and Ma Zhizhai and his party away. Wu Ming called Chen Zhaoxian, who was stationed in Kaihua, to discuss. Chen Zhaoxian, who was promoted two levels, readily agreed to stay for a week, waiting for Wu Ming to mobilize troops to deal with the defense.

After putting down the phone, Wu Ming immediately convened an emergency military meeting to inform the changes in the affiliation and number of the regiment, and then issued an order:

"Appointing Captain Yang Sixian, the company commander of the machine gun company, temporarily acting as battalion commander of the second battalion, led all the brothers of the company to Kaihua to take over defense; ordered Dai Ziran, the combat staff officer of the regiment headquarters, to lead a staff team to Kaihua County, mobilize the Kaihua County militia, and temporarily take over the surrounding defense."

Afterwards, Wu Ming sent three command teams to ride war horses and rushed to Maoliangwu, Baishi Town and Chinatown, and notified the heads of militia to come to the meeting as soon as possible.

A week later, 800 new recruits recruited by Kaihua County, Baishi Town, Chinatown and Maoliangwu were gathered in the military camp in the north of Changshan City.
Chapter completed!