Chapter 50: Advance (1)

  Chapter 50: Advance (1)

  On the morning of April 10, 1929, Beida Camp was newly decorated. The ground was covered with fresh earth, and colorful flags were inserted on the surrounding walls. All the houses had been freshly painted, and all the soldiers were dressed in new clothes, looking joyful as if they had just celebrated the New Year.

  At 7:00 in the morning, the gate of Beida Camp slowly opened, and one by one, small cars drove in, "screeching" to a halt at the entrance of General Wang Yizhe's command department.

  The young marshal and some staff members got out of the car, after getting off the bus, the young marshal looked around at the surroundings, nodded in satisfaction, and asked: "Who did all this?"

  Wang Yizhe walked up and said: "It was Hu Zi who did it, saying it was to ward off evil."

  The young general listened for a moment, then burst out laughing and asked: "How can there still be evil today?"

  Wang Yizhe also laughed and said: "Hu Zi says this is called being prepared for any situation!"

  The young marshal listened and nodded: "That makes sense, what else is prepared?"

  Wang Yizhe winked at Shao Shuai, who understood and said: "You all go to the guest room first, I'll wait here for Wang Changhu."

  Wang Yizhe's staff led the young marshal's staff into the conference room, while the young marshal watched them all walk in through the main door. He turned around and followed Wang Yizhe in through another door to the 7th Army Operations Room conference room. The door was open, and there were already many people inside. As soon as the young marshal appeared at the doorway, the guard shouted: "The Young Marshal has arrived."

  Everyone's eyes were focused on the entrance, and they all stood at attention. The young marshal saluted and walked in, seeing a sand table placed in the center of the room. Upon closer inspection: the terrain within a ten-mile radius around the Northern University campus.

  "Who did it?" asked General Shao.

  Wang Changhu, dressed in his lieutenant general's uniform, took a step forward and said: "It was I who did it."

  The young marshal looked at him and said: "Not bad, just like a human being! What kind of play are you singing?"

  Wang Changhu waved his hand at the guard, and the guard quietly closed the door.

  Wang Changtiger said: "The deputy chief of staff has received accurate information that the Japanese, Feng Yuxiang and the remnants of the Qing dynasty are going to make trouble on this occasion of the Beiyuan reception. Their spies have been captured by us, but it is not clear who the action personnel are, so I want to take advantage of this opportunity to eradicate the roots of several forces within my department and clean up a batch of dregs in the troops."

  The young marshal frowned and said, "What if we clean it wrong?"

  Wang Changhu said: "So we want to ask General Shao for help."

  "What can I help you with?"

  Wang Changhu whispered in Shao Shuai's ear for a while, and Shao Shuai thought for a moment before saying, "Just this once, don't make it a habit."

  Wang Changhu stood up straight and said: "Yes."

  Shao Shuai arrived in front of Chang San and said: "I hope that today the third army will not disappoint me!"

  "I will never let you down."

  The young general nodded at everyone and said: "Everyone has worked hard."

  Wang Changhu almost shouted out: Serve the People!

  After the young marshal left, a group of people stayed behind to study some details in order to prevent some sudden events from happening.

  At this moment, a meeting was being held inside the Japanese consulate. The consul looked at several subordinates and said: "Are all arrangements made?"

  "It's all arranged," one of his men said.

  "The consul continued to ask: 'Are there several stage targets in total, have they been confirmed?'"

  There are three stages of goals:

  First is: create chaos, the bigger the better;

  The second is: Assassinate Xiao Shuai and frame it as an internal conflict

  Third is: Take advantage of the chaos to contact spies, obtain evidence and return safely.

  The Japanese consul said with a smile: "Tomorrow Manchuria and Mongolia will officially fall into our great Japanese Empire!"

  Dark clouds are slowly floating in the sky above Beidaying, bringing a shadow and a coolness.

  At 7:50, all the generals and staff officers accompanied General Xiao onto the reviewing stand.

  At eight o'clock sharp, the military band in front of the Beida camp began to play music. Rows and rows of soldiers started entering from the main gate, wearing brand new uniforms and exuding a powerful atmosphere, causing the officers on stage to nod their heads repeatedly and praise them; even General Shao couldn't help but feel delighted: Ah, these are my troops after all!

  The first to arrive was an infantry regiment, followed by 2,500 unarmed young boys wearing large knives; then another infantry regiment, and again a group of 2,500 young boys. The next group was the same. The entire army had nearly 15,000 people.

  The young general took a glance and called over Wang Changtiger, saying: "Why are there so many child soldiers?"

  Wang Changhu replied: "Zhao Yun flew to the mountain to recruit soldiers, but in the end, he was only given more than a thousand Wa children soldiers; it was the same when he went back to his old unit. There's no way, so I'll just take whatever is given!"

  "Will it affect the defense of Beida Camp?"

  Wang Changhu said: "It won't be, the new recruit camp will expand to ten camps, and the scale of the regiment will shrink accordingly. Each regiment has only about 2,000 people. In Beida Camp, we plan to put three regiments plus four special action regiments and a vertical command headquarters, with a total number of over 11,000 people."

  The young general frowned and asked: "What about the garrison troops in the Liu family's mansion?"

  Wang Changhu said helplessly: "There is only one special operations battalion and officer training battalion plus five thousand child soldiers."

  "What is it that you lack most now?"

  "Officers, especially those with fresh blood!"

  "Fresh blood?" asked Xiao Shuai in confusion.

  Wang Changhu explained: "When a newly graduated military officer joins the army, it's like a person absorbing new blood, which will make his body healthy for a while." Wang Changhu didn't know if he had made himself clear.

  "Right," said General Shao, nodding his head. "We just need to bring in some new blood and sweep away the stagnant old warlord habits!"

  Wang Changhu hastily nodded in agreement, his pitiful eyes looking at Shao Shuai said: "Allocate 300 military academy graduates to us this year!"

  The young marshal looked at Wang Changhu and said with a mixture of anger and amusement, "This year's graduating officers can only allocate 200 people to you, the profession can be chosen, but the number is just that many!"

  Wang Changhu's face changed like a mask, sometimes cloudy and sometimes sunny, finally reluctantly accepted the young marshal's suggestion;

  After all the soldiers came in, a medical team led by Hu Jingzhong entered and stood at the outermost side of all the teams.

  More than 10,000 people formed six large squares, each square was further divided into smaller squares with a company as the unit, clear and well-trained.

  At this time, Zhao Yun flew to the front of the loudspeaker and said: "Brothers welcome you back home, now listen to my command, gun on shoulder, sit down."

  All the soldiers in the troops shouldered their rifles with a "click" and sat down uniformly with a "swish".

  Zhaoyunfeng roughly swept his eyes over the troops and found that dozens of people sat down reluctantly, he secretly remembered the positions of those people.

  After everyone had sat down, more than 500 people ran out of the barracks with holsters on their waists and constabulary armbands on their sleeves, running into the drill ground in an orderly manner; they inserted themselves between the boundary lines of each team, facing the seated soldiers, with their hands crossed behind their backs, legs apart, feet parallel, eyes fixed forward, expressionless.

  At this time, Zhao Yunfei said: "Next, please ask Ou Yangqing, the head of the Military Law Department of the Vertical Team, to announce the requirements of the venue."

  Everyone was stunned and puzzled: this is what that monster came up with, let's listen to it first!

  Ouyang Qing stepped forward and took out a piece of paper, reading aloud:

  1. No unnecessary noise shall be made;

  2. Do not stand up without reason;

  Three, no muzzle shall be pointed forward without reason;

  Fourth, implement class ranking and seating, one person makes a mistake, the whole class is dealt with; one class has an issue, the whole row is dealt with.

  Those who violate the preceding three articles shall be executed by shooting on the spot.

  Many people are wondering: is this really necessary?

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