While interested people were waiting to see Zhou Wen's joke, Zhou Wen had quietly arrived at the headquarters of the 19th Route Army still stationed in Shanghai one evening.
When General Jiang, the commander-in-chief of the Nineteenth Route Army, heard the report from his staff, he was greatly surprised and quickly asked his men to bring Zhou Wen in.
"Xiao Zhou, if you don't work as your instructor in Nanjing, why do you come to me? Could it be that you have been wronged in some way?" General Jiang looked at Zhou Wen, who was tired of the journey, and said with a smile.
"Commander Chiang, I have suffered a lot of grievances despite my humble position, so why don't I come to you for help?"
Zhou Wen also pretended to be wronged, looked at General Jiang pitifully and said.
General Jiang burst out laughing, pointed at Zhou Wen and cursed with a smile: "As soon as I saw your pitiful look, I knew you had no good intentions. Tell me, what do you need my help with?"
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More than an hour later, General Jiang looked at Zhou Wen with a solemn expression as he left. General Cai, who was standing next to him, sighed softly and said, "Brother Jingran, I didn't expect that in just one hour, we would be killed by this boy."
After being persuaded, I just gave up thousands of veterans who had spent their remaining lives in battles. Looking back now, was it a little too hasty? Even an outstanding regimental leader like Xiao Cai was given away."
The Xiao Cai that General Cai is talking about is actually Commander Cai of the 3rd Regiment of the 156 Brigade who had dealings with Zhou Wen. He is also a distant cousin of General Cai. He was seriously injured in the Battle of Temple Walk and is still in the hospital.
Recuperate.
General Jiang said solemnly: "It's not that he is rash, but this guy has hit the mark on what we have been worried about! Besides, you don't know Xiao Cai's situation. With such a serious injury, how can you recover after just a few months of good recovery?"
Leading troops? Besides, it would be a good thing for him to follow Xiao Zhou to the Central Party Headquarters."
General Cai sighed again, looked up and stared at the night sky shrouded by layers of dark clouds, thinking about the confused future prospects of the 19th Route Army, and was speechless for a long time.
It turns out that the Sino-Japanese negotiations have come to an end. One of the conditions proposed by the Japanese side is that the Chinese army is not allowed to garrison in Shanghai. Seeing that the 19th Route Army can no longer stay in Shanghai, where will they go?
Looking at the current China, except for the seven provinces of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Anhui, Jiangxi, Hubei, and Hunan, which are directly controlled by the National Government, the other provinces are only semi-independent states that are nominally under the jurisdiction of the National Government. Which province
Would any of the warlords be willing to allow a guest army to garrison? Let alone an iron army that could fight the Japanese army for months without defeat. These warlords were afraid that the guests would deceive the host and occupy the magpie's nest.
And the 19th Route Army is a non-lineage unit of the Nationalist Army. If it is stationed in an area directly controlled by the Nationalist Government, according to the principal's consistent methods, I am afraid that this army will be divided and annexed in less than a year.
Even whether the number can be kept has become a problem.
But it is even more impossible to return to my hometown in Guangdong. Guangdong has just experienced an incident against the principal. How could the principal return this powerful army at this time? Wouldn't that make his opponents even more powerful?
During this period, the two leaders of the 19th Route Army almost turned their heads with worry over this. But Zhou Wen's arrival directly pointed out the only possible garrison location for the 19th Route Army, which was Fujian.
However, Fujian is the place that the 19th Route Army least wants to go, because many areas in Fujian have now become red zones, and going to Fujian means fighting a civil war.
Neither general wanted to see the elite veterans who had fought bloody battles for the country and nation against the Japanese armed to the teeth during the Songhu Anti-Japanese War and spent the rest of their lives in the civil war. This was something neither general wanted to see.
However, the situation is pressing, and now the 19th Route Army has no capital to disobey orders, especially after months of fighting on the Songhu battlefield and its strength has been greatly reduced.
Therefore, with the future of the 19th Route Army uncertain, leaving some sparks for this heroic unit that has made great achievements in fighting foreign enemies has become a choice that the top management of the 19th Route Army has to consider.
Zhou Wen's performance on the Songhu battlefield had already won the respect of the two generals, and he also had some understanding of his background and gained their trust.
To say that in the current Republic of China, the only army that can really treat the officers and soldiers of the 19th Route Army as comrades and brothers is the Shanxi Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army of the Central Party Headquarters who fought side by side with them for more than a month.
Moreover, those officers and soldiers who Zhou Wen came to contact on behalf of the Central Party Headquarters Training Corps were those officers and soldiers who had not recovered from serious injuries.
You must know that the 19th Route Army has been fighting on the front line of the Anti-Japanese War for more than two months. It has never had a chance to rest and replenish its troops. Countless officers and soldiers have died, and four to five thousand officers and soldiers have been injured.
The 19th Route Army is about to face a thousand-mile turnaround. It's okay to say that those with less serious injuries can reluctantly follow the main force, but what about those officers and soldiers whose injuries have not healed?
Can they still hope that after these wounded soldiers recover, Nanjing will send them to the 19th Route Army?
Everyone knows this is impossible.
Think about it, thousands of veterans who started from the Northern Expedition, experienced countless fierce battles, and finally fought fiercely with the Japanese army for several months without defeat, and were bravely injured on the fierce and cruel battlefield. As long as they can recover, every one of them is a soldier.
The most precious treasure, every one of them is a prize in the eyes of any army.
Who wouldn’t be jealous of such officers and soldiers? Who wouldn’t want to be under his command?
What's more, the 19th Route Army does not belong to the Central Army series. It is a non-direct force, and it is also a force that the principal deliberately wants to win over and divide. As long as the big bosses of the Central Army series are involved, will there still be that blind person who comes out to fight against injustice?
In particular, the Fifth Army, which had just withdrawn to Nanjing and lost so many soldiers in Shanghai, was the unit most likely to be the first to receive these veterans.
Therefore, the fate of these precious veterans has been destined to be devoured by countless red-eyed wolves.
Of course, for these individual officers and soldiers, it is not necessarily a bad thing. At least they have transformed into the Central Army with the best equipment and military pay. Maybe some officers will have a brighter future.
But for the senior officials of the 19th Route Army, it was like the children they had raised with so much hard work, and finally became children of others, and they were the kind of white-eyed wolves who took advantage of them and behaved well.
It’s so heartbreaking!
That's why they were able to reach an agreement with Zhou Wen in a short period of time.
Because of the advantage of those white-eyed wolves, it is better to hand them over to Zhou Wen. At least Zhou Wen is someone they trust. At least they know that Zhou Wen will never get rich just for his own promotion, so let these men who have shed blood for the country and the people, then