The train slowed down slowly in the night. After stopping at Chuzhou Station for half an hour, it started again and continued towards Pukou.
Zhao Rui was dressed in military uniform with a slight frown. He stood at the entrance of the carriage for a long time, looking out the window at the outline of the village moving backwards and the occasional bright light. He smoked cigarettes silently, three in a row. Zhao Rui took a deep breath and borrowed the opportunity. Looking at the lights at the train connection, he raised his wrist and glanced at his watch, and told the head guard who was standing aside to take a rest.
Zhao Rui walked into the front carriage alone and found that An Yi and his brothers had woken up. Everyone was sitting or standing between the two booths, talking in low voices.
Lin Yaodong was chatting quietly with Shen Fengdao. When he saw Zhao Rui arriving, he quickly stood up and gave up his seat. Zhao Rui was not polite and sat down next to Zhan, smiling at An Yi opposite him.
"We'll arrive at Pukou Station in two hours, probably around eight in the morning."
After Zhao Rui finished speaking, he took the teacup handed by the guard, placed it gently on the chopping board in front of him, and asked An Yi with a smile: "I saw everyone talking and laughing, what are they talking about?"
An Yi withdrew his gaze from the car window and replied rather nostalgically: "Passing this section of railway, the brothers couldn't help but think of the days when they were fleeing from Jiangbei. We had attacked trains on this line. Many of the model camp's The old brothers left us forever during those most difficult years. Almost all those who survived are now leading troops in various ministries. Otherwise, they continue to wear military uniforms in our arsenals and munitions factories, and some of them open shops and become bosses like Old Hantou. When Xiaojiu mentioned this just now, when the brothers thought about it, they all said it was like it happened yesterday, and they were so moved!"
Zhao Rui nodded: "I remembered what you said. The Xuzhou Intelligence Station said in the last report that the leader of Xu Xiangqian's most powerful independent regiment was named Wu Qinghe, and most of his troops were Luo People along the shores of Ma Lake, I remember that when the commander led his brothers to break out, he left a sum of money to the Shawan fishermen Wu Zhaolin and Wu Qinghe who helped us on the north shore of Luoma Lake, as well as thousands of weapons, including light and heavy machine guns. Weapons. Two years ago, the leader of the "Northern Jiangsu Soviet Independent Brigade" was named Wu Qinghe. This force once occupied more than a hundred villages and towns in counties from Pizhou to Muyang. Later, under the command of General Chen Tiaoyuan, General Chen Yi Despite the combined efforts of four divisions, they still persisted for half a year before collapsing. I heard that the two attacking troops lost more than 4,000 people, and I still feel horrified when I recall them. Commander, tell me, this Wu Qinghe and Xu Xiangqian Is his fierce general Wu Qinghe the same person?"
An Yi sighed faintly: "Yes, they are the same person. When he inspected the First Division the day before yesterday, Lao Shen confirmed it from the telegram sent back by Sun Desheng from behind enemy lines. Lao Shen, come and tell everyone. "
Shen Fengdao, who is in charge of An Yi's most confidential affairs, calmly introduced: "Two years ago we knew about the Communist Party's independent brigade across northern Jiangsu, and we also knew that in the autumn of 2007, the leader risked his life to help me independently learn from Luoma I have sent people to contact Wu family uncles and nephews who escaped from the encirclement twice, trying to recruit them... But when our people got there, they knew it was impossible. The Jiangsu Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China had already recruited this unit half a year before us. Wu Qinghe personally told Lao Ding, who secretly went to contact him for the second time: If we have different opinions, we can't work together! He also used various reasons to urge Lao Ding to come back and tell the commander not to work for the Kuomintang reactionaries anymore. Lao Ding and the others were unmoved. , Wu Qinghe immediately issued an eviction order. Old Ding was so angry that he turned around and left. Before he got on the boat at the lakeside dock, senior Wu Zhaolin, who was the deputy captain of the independent brigade, rushed over and apologized, saying that Wu Qinghe was young and had a stubborn temper, so he asked Old Ding not to leave. Take it to your heart, but Senior Wu Zhaolin's position is very firm, and he made it clear that he will follow the Communist Party in this life. He also said that the three thousand soldiers of his independent brigade are all the same and will never surrender to the Kuomintang army that only knows how to collect exorbitant taxes and does not care about the life and death of the people. Ding had no choice but to come back, and since then, we have never had contact with the Wu family's uncles and nephews..."
The more Zhao Rui heard, the more shocked he became. He shook his head and sighed. Zhan Zhan asked with some confusion: "How come we don't know about these things? There are no official records in the headquarters files. Did the commander deliberately not leave any information about this secret contact?" information?"
"There are records. All actions and external contacts of our department have written records and archives. However, top-secret documents above level three are not at the military, division level, or our headquarters. They are stored in the Intelligence Department under Du Yi's jurisdiction. In the archives, if you want to know every step of our army's journey from Guangzhou at the beginning of the Northern Expedition to today, I will write you a handwriting when I return to southern Sichuan, and you can go in and check it in detail." After An Yi explained, he asked Shen Feng Dao waved his hand to continue.
Shen Fengdao went on to introduce: "Do you remember that Gu Shunzhang, a member of the Communist Party Central Committee, was accidentally arrested by the Wuhan camp at the beginning of the year? That night, the arrested Gu Shunzhang was worried that the military police headquarters would shoot him as an ordinary Communist spy. In order to save his life, he One of the confessions was the location of the Hubei Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China in Wuhan and the location of the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Communist Army intelligence liaison station in Wuhan. Two hours later, the gendarmerie destroyed these two institutions, killing more than ten people and arresting dozens of others. Then we followed the clues and destroyed more than a dozen organizations of the Communist Party in Wuhan, large and small. Among the four people killed in the Wuhan Intelligence Liaison Office under Xu Xiangqian, there was senior Wu Zhaolin who had helped us escape. At that time, senior Wu Zhaolin was already a member of Xu Xiangqian's regiment. He became the deputy director of the Logistics Department. He also knew Mr. Xi Pin, the head of our Jiangxi Chamber of Commerce in Hankou. We had done a lot of business. As a result, one of the captured Communists had a weakling who could not withstand the attack and betrayed our Jiangxi Chamber of Commerce. Having sold prohibited materials and medicines to the Red Army many times, the Wuhan Gendarmerie Headquarters immediately arrested Mr. Xi Pin, and our intelligence agents promptly telegraphed the matter to the Nanchang Headquarters. At that time, we were fighting against Little Japan on the Songhu battlefield, and received Uncle Dao was surprised by the urgent telegram. The commander sent a telegram to General He Chengjun, the leader of the Wuhan camp, saying that Mr. Xipin was one of ours. Ten minutes later, Director He called back and ordered his release. At this time, we still did not know that Senior Wu Zhaolin had been tortured to extract a confession. We did not know the specifics until the third day when people from the Investigation Bureau of the Central Party Headquarters came to the frontline headquarters, asked to see the commander and presented relevant documents. The commander immediately became angry and drove away those who wanted to inquire about the relationship between senior Wu Zhaolin and Mr. Xi Pin. The head of the Investigation Section of the Party Headquarters then sent a telegram to Mr. Chen Lifu, and no one mentioned the matter again."
After everyone learned the whole story, they sighed for a while. While admiring the uncle and nephew of the Wu family for their persistence, they were also sad that they belonged to different camps.
Zhao Rui thought for a while and finally plucked up the courage to express his doubts: "Commander, my subordinates feel that the commander is hiding something from everyone - this time, more than a hundred people from all over the headquarters and more than a thousand brothers from the special service group came from southern Sichuan. They came out and rushed all the way to Bengbu without stopping. As a result, they left the front line before their buttocks were hot. The brothers felt very sudden and confused. It was certainly a good thing not to fight with Xu Qianqian, Cai Shenxi and other senior brothers, but it was a shame to fight like this. Returning to Nanjing still leaves my subordinates unprepared."
"Haha, are you feeling sudden and confused?" An Yi lit a cigarette and asked with a meaningful smile.
The brothers all laughed, and Zhao Rui chuckled: "Yes, I really didn't understand... Shortly after following the commander on board the ship at the foot of Mount Lu, the commander and I learned from the series of intelligence and documents handed over to us by Deputy Chief Ge,
I saw the combat plan from Mr. Hughes, the deputy head of the advisory group. Although it was a copy, it was very detailed, including the schematic diagram of the combat plan. The commander had also seen it with his own eyes. Strictly speaking, Hughes' plan was actually a
It's a pretty good plan, just need to
After modifying several small links, it will become a relatively complete campaign-level plan. For example, the swamp in the north of Meicun cannot pass the artillery battalion, but it can be completely replaced by a mortar battalion. If necessary, our special agent regiment's
The machine gun battalion can be mounted at any time. Also, upon arriving in Bengbu, the commander ordered Sun Desheng's special agent regiment to secretly dispatch twelve reconnaissance teams carrying small radios deep into the Communist base areas to conduct reconnaissance. Sun Desheng personally led the
The team also sent back valuable information the next night, confirming that there were only three families living on the mountainside south of Baihe Ridge, and they made a living by hunting and collecting herbs. They often took the trail in the back mountain.
The company launched a sneak attack, and it only took two and a half hours to pass through the extremely steep, narrow path that few people knew, and appeared several hundred meters behind the dangerous pass of Baihe Ridge to launch a surprise attack on a company of Communist troops who had been guarding there for a long time.
,from
And to ensure the smooth passage of Senior Brother Li Yutang's Third Division...it can be said that as long as a few flaws are slightly corrected, the campaign plan can be implemented smoothly. What the subordinates were surprised and confused about was how the commander could still change Hughes' plan.
Is the approval worthless? If you don’t want to stay on the front line and be that acting commander-in-chief, the commander can definitely achieve the goal of leaving the front line in many ways! Why risk offending the advisory group by risking the anger of the principal and members of the Military Commission?"
All the brothers felt that it was reasonable, and they all looked at An Yi for the answer.
An Yi blew out the smoke and asked, "Senior brother, please tell me, is there any more effective way to get away from the front line of suppressing the Communist Party faster than offending the advisory group?"
Zhao Rui thought about it carefully and found that there was really no other method that was more effective than An Yi's method. Although Zhao Rui had three or four methods in his mind, they all took a lot of time, more than a week at the fastest, and An Yi's method was the only one.
It can shock everyone at once, make the principal angry, and quickly achieve the goal of leaving the front line at the cost of dismissal and investigation.
An Yi saw Zhao Rui shaking his head and smiling helplessly. He leaned forward slightly and explained in a low voice: "Senior brother, you also know that most of the brothers, including you, are not willing to fight a civil war. What's more, what we are dealing with this time is ours."
Senior brothers Xu Xiangqian, Cai Shenxi and others from Huangpu? When we were studying how to wipe out the Communist troops in Bengbu, the Japanese had already dispatched planes
, bombed several important towns in Rehe three times, killing thousands of our compatriots. The Kwantung Army and the various Japanese military units that retreated from Shanghai to the Northeast are conducting frequent large-scale targeted training. Puppet Manchukuo spies, traitors, and Japanese spies even
They were openly operating in Tianjin, Qingdao and other places. Even Zhang Xueliang, the young marshal who was in charge of Peiping, could not help shouting that he would be killed this time, not to mention the rest of us.
The heroic troops who hated the Japanese invaders extremely during the Songhu Anti-Japanese War and won numerous praises from the military and civilians across the country? Secondly, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China has electrified the whole country three times in the Jiangxi and Fujian areas, demonstrating their determination to resist Japan. Although our army lieutenant general and many soldiers
Everyone thought this was just a delaying tactic by the Communist Party, but the Communist Party’s attitude made them
It has won the hearts and minds of the people. This is something that no one can deny. The grandsons of the Central Party Committee are not as smart as the Central Committee of the Communist Party and do not know how to follow the trend. Instead, they frequently shout "the Communist Party's monstrous words to deceive the people and try to use the opportunity to escape difficulties" and so on. This has never been seen
What solid reasons did they come up with to convince the people of the country? How can I dare to be proud of the civil war at this juncture?"
When the brothers heard that it made sense, they all agreed with An Yi's words. An Yi continued: "One more thing, the most important reason why I came back in such a quick way is to focus on the upcoming Sino-Japanese war.
Yes, if my prediction is good, it will be as long as half a year and as low as three.
In March, the well-prepared Japanese army will definitely invade Rehe and North China, and a big war is imminent. Otherwise, the young marshal and the generals of the Northeast Army who can reluctantly abandon their homes in the Northeast will not be in such panic all day long as they are today. Senior brother also knows that as long as
With the strength of the Northeastern Army, it is impossible to stop the Japanese.
If the war continues, the scoundrels in the Northeastern Army will defect to the Japanese, or in order to preserve their own strength, they will ignore the interests and dignity of the country and the nation, and use the excuse of being unstoppable to collapse thousands of miles, thereby losing strategic locations and triggering panic throughout the country.
and despair. At this critical moment, can we still be patient?
Is it legitimate for us to be at war with each other in the hinterland of China? It doesn’t matter what other people think. I, An Yi, don’t want to leave this reputation. All departments of the Anjia Army, including me, need to seize the limited time immediately and make full preparations for the upcoming Sino-Japanese war.
Protecting our homeland and our country is the highest value of our military existence."
When the brothers heard this, they supported An Yi's decision even more. Zhao Rui also put aside the doubts in his heart and became full of understanding and respect for An Yi.
But what the brothers didn't know was that An Yi had another very important reason that he didn't say: the urgent report from the United States made him toss and turn, making him sleepless and unable to sleep well. A huge crisis involving An Yi and his entire military and political group had begun.
Present, An Yibu
He had to concentrate on dealing with it with all his strength. Before he left Bengbu, he had already called Lao Shoudao in Nanchang, Yang Bin, Yin Jinan, Gu Changfeng in southern Sichuan, and Zhou Chongan who was attending the trade fair in Shanghai, asking everyone to rush to Nanchang as soon as possible to discuss