"Are you Commander Ouyang of the Military Academy?" A middle-aged general wearing the rank of lieutenant general came forward, looked at Ouyang Yun and asked softly,
"it's me."
"I am Huang Renhuan from the First Group Army of the Guangdong Army. Welcome to Guangdong." After Huang Renhuan finished speaking, he turned around and nodded to the group of generals behind him.
Later, with loud drum music, a general about forty years old led a group of generals towards them. Behind them, there was a group of people cheering, "Warmly welcome Commander Ouyang to visit Guangdong".
"Please let me introduce you." Huang Renhuan stepped aside and stood next to Ouyang Yun, introducing Zhang Da to him: "This is General Zhang Da, the commander of the Second Army of our First Group Army of the Guangdong Army."
"That's too exaggerated. What does Chen Jitang want to do? Does this Huang Banxian really have such energy?" Such questions quickly flashed through Ouyang Yun's mind. Faced with Zhang Da who walked over with a smile and his outstretched right hand, his face instinctively showed a smile. With a friendly smile, he took two steps forward, stretched out his hands to hold them tightly, and said flattered: "General Zhang Da, how dare I dare to do you such a favor? I'm really ashamed."
"Mr. Ouyang, you are so humble. I have heard the name of the 'Anti-Japanese Heroes' for a long time and have longed to see them. Today I got my wish. I am really lucky." Zhang Da said and hurriedly extended another hand. Then, the two of them held hands with each other. Zhang Daban turned around and faced the camera reporter who had long emerged from the crowd with him. He put on a sincere smile on his face and let the spotlight flash in front of his eyes.
"As expected of the 'Two Heroes of the Anti-Japanese War', they were not surprised at all in the face of such a battle." A bystander whispered to his companions,
Bai Liusu and others looked at each other, and their tense nerves relaxed a little. They quickly put on their sunglasses, stood silently behind Ouyang Yun, and began to scan the surrounding crowd with their eyes.
After greeting Zhang Da, he accepted the flowers presented by the two teenagers. Under Zhang Da's introduction, Ouyang Yunyi, Miao Peinan and other Cantonese generals shook hands with the celebrities and gentlemen in Guangzhou and greeted Bai Liusu and Liu. Zhe Liang and the two were introduced to the generals of the Guangdong Army. The welcome level of the Guangdong Army was really too high. Although he didn't know what the other party's intentions were, Ouyang Yun didn't want to embarrass his master. In order to show the weight of the delegation of the Military Academy, he temporarily Bai Liusu and Liu Zheliang were given the titles of Commander-in-Chief of Renqiu Security and Deputy Captain of Langya respectively.
"Langya, is it the Langya special brigade that destroyed the Japanese bacterial base with more than 20 people?" When shaking hands with Liu Zheliang, Zhang Da looked at the other party carefully and asked,
Ouyang Yun smiled: "Yes."
Zhang Da sighed sincerely: "It's not simple."
After the warm welcome ceremony, Ouyang Yun and his party, accompanied by Zhang Da and others, drove to the Guangdong Army Headquarters to attend the commendation meeting hosted by Hu Hanmin personally.
When he first learned about this arrangement from Zhang Da in the car, Ouyang Yun had a strange expression and was speechless for a long time.
Who is Hu Hanmin, a veteran of the Kuomintang and the spiritual leader of the powerful faction in the south? Although he does not have real power now, he has great influence in the south and among overseas Chinese in Southeast Asian countries. Chen Jitang actually invited him out to celebrate the military academy. What is the purpose behind this? In his later years, Hu Hanmin's political propositions were to resist Japan, oppose Chiang Kai-shek, and suppress the Communist Party, while Chen Jitang's excuse for uniting with the Guangxi clique to fight against Chiang Kai-shek was to force Chiang Kai-shek to resist Japan. Thinking of this, Ouyang Yun couldn't help but Secretly admire Chen Jitang's scheming. He is using himself and his military training division as pawns.
"Mr. Ouyang, are you too tired from running around for days?" Zhang Da asked with concern when he saw Ouyang Yun's expression was not good.
Ouyang Yun looked at him and said coldly: "I'm wondering how I offended Commander Chen and my colleagues in Cantonese."
"No way, Commander-in-Chief Chen did this just because he admired the heroic actions of Commander Ouyang and your department in resisting Japan."
"Really?" Ouyang Yun grinned, "But why do I feel like I'm being roasted on a fire?"
Hearing what he said, Zhang Da immediately knew that Chen Jitang's narrow-mindedness could not be hidden from this young man. He smiled a little awkwardly and said: "Mr. Ouyang should know that our Guangdong faction has always been keen on resisting Japan, but due to geographical reasons, Unable to control the three northeastern provinces, the Xuebing Division dared to challenge the Japanese with just one division. This is something we are ashamed of. We really do this just out of admiration for the heroes and want to show the world that position, although we were not able to appear on the front line of the anti-Japanese war in person, we in Cantonese will spare no effort to support the anti-Japanese team."
"Will you spare no effort to support me?" Ouyang Yun smiled faintly, looked out the window, and then said something irrelevant: "Guangzhou is really rich. With just one province, it can actually support the army, navy, and air force. , this is simply comparable to the central government of the United States."
The speaker seemed unintentional, but the listener did. Zhang Da's heart beat violently when he heard the words. He realized the deep meaning of the other person's words. He thought: Maybe the commander-in-chief took this step too hastily. He turned his face and looked at the people beside him quietly. The young man glanced at him, and a question arose in his mind again: Is this Ouyang Yun really only twenty-one years old? A twenty-one-year-old person has such insight, it is really formidable, and he can't help but worry about this hot-blooded " Will the "Anti-Japanese Heroes" hold a grudge because of this and prevent Chen Jitang from stepping down at the commendation meeting?
Facts have proved that Zhang Da's worries were unnecessary. As a young man, Ouyang Yun was inevitably hot-blooded, but fortunately he knew the importance. After seeing through Chen Jitang's conspiracy, he did not show any displeasure in public. On the contrary , he showed a flattered look, and completed his first meeting with Hu Hanmin and other Cantonese elders as a subordinate and a junior.
The so-called commendation meeting was, in the final analysis, just a show organized by Chen Jitang in order to show that he and Chiang Kai-shek's position of non-resistance to Japan was contrary to that of Chiang Kai-shek. Under the auspices of Chen Weizhou, first Hu Hanmin and Chen Jitang represented the Guangdong military and civilians to express their views on the Xuexi Military Division and Ouyang Yun was awarded banners, medals, and condolences for his heroic anti-Japanese actions. Then, Hu Hanmin and Chen Jitang gave speeches respectively. Without exception, both of them first spoke about Chiang Kai-shek and the Nanjing government's policy of compromise with Japan. Then the former issued a call to the whole country, and the latter mobilized the soldiers and civilians of Guangdong, and expressed their determination to resist Japan as well as the Cantonese faction, and were willing to work with anti-Japanese teams like the Xuexing Division to safeguard the integrity and integrity of the motherland. The fierce Japanese soldiers fought to the end,
After Chen Jitang, representatives of the gentry from Guangdong also took the stage to speak to show their support for the Guangdong anti-Japanese action.
Since Hu Hanmin and others all spoke in Cantonese, except for Ouyang Yun, who could understand the Xuebingshi group, the others had no idea what was being said on the stage. Liu Zheliang had long been dissatisfied with the arrangement of the Cantonese department, and he whispered to Zhang Chun, who was next to him, said: "These Cantonese guys are so arrogant. Who do they think they are, the central government? Humph, they actually presented awards to our military training divisions as superiors. It's really a bully."
Zhang Chun glanced at Ouyang Yun and responded softly: "The Guangdong guy's move is really terrible. In this way, Nanjing will definitely give us some shoes to wear. Master has spent so much effort to improve the relationship with Nanjing. So, It was all in vain."
"Shut up, everyone. It's not as simple as you think." Ouyang Yun heard their discussion and turned his head to glare at them.
The two of them hurriedly shut up. They felt that something was wrong with the little officer's mood.
After a wave of applause, a squire who had finished his speech walked off the stage. Chen Weizhou came on stage again. He looked towards Ouyang Yun and said loudly: "Next, we have General Ouyang Yun, the commander of the Military Academy, to give a speech to everyone. "
The applause resumed, and Ouyang Yun stood up helplessly and walked towards the stage. As soon as he stepped onto the steps, Zhang Chun bit Liu Zheliang's ear: "The young officer is really angry, I saw him gritting his teeth, hehe, there is a Cantonese guy. It’s pretty.”
Liu Zheliang shook his head and glared at him like he was an idiot.
"What?" Zhang Chun was puzzled.
"Master is not as stupid as you, huh, if his actions can be guessed by you, then is he still Master?"
"But Master is really angry."
Liu Zheliang shook his head and ignored him, but thought in his heart: Officials are actually quite pitiful when they become big, and they don't even have the right to get angry freely. Thinking about this, he felt sympathy for his junior officer.
Ouyang Yun didn't know what his subordinates were thinking at the moment, but just as Liu Zheliang expected, although he was so angry that he gritted his teeth when he took the stage, once he got on stage, there was no trace of anger on his face anymore. Of course, , if you think that he will cooperate with Chen Jitang's performance, you are completely wrong.
Ouyang Yun's opening lines are as follows: "Thank you, Commander-in-Chief Chen, thank you Mr. Hu, thank you all the officers and colleagues of the Guangdong Department, thank you all the folks in Guangdong, thank you..."
A lot of thanks. If Chen Jitang couldn't help but put up a reserved smile on his face when he first heard Ouyang Yun thanking Commander-in-Chief Chen, the thank yous that followed for about five minutes made him dumbfounded. He was alone. Hu Hanmin couldn't help it at first. He tilted his head and whispered to Zhang Da beside him: "What does this little guy want to do?"
Zhang Da smiled bitterly. Facing the confused young man on the podium, he also had no clue.
Perhaps the only people who understood Ouyang Yun's purpose were Liu Zheliang and Bai Liusu. Although they looked around warily from time to time, smiles appeared on their faces at this time. They knew that Ouyang Yun had started to mess around again.