Chapter 24: The Strife Between Left and Right

  The scenery of the northern country, a thousand miles of ice and snow, ten thousand miles of fluttering snow, looking at the Great Wall inside and out, only desolation remains.

  Meng Yao carried the shield of Zhuge, listening to the crunching sound of snow under his feet, and couldn't help but stop and gaze into the distance. This vast expanse of mountains, wrapped in silver and white, what a wonderful landscape! With Mao Wei's unparalleled poem, at this moment, one should be enjoying a peaceful, harmonious, and serene world. But that insignificant country, unaware of its own insignificance, also wants to take a bite of the fat meat along with those powerful nations. This abnormal nation, its viciousness and cruelty in biting people are even more heinous than other robbers. Alas, some of our compatriots still can't see this point clearly after a hundred years, a thousand years. It is a snake that cannot be warmed up, a wolf that cannot be domesticated.

  Zhuge Dun followed behind, not understanding why his camp commander had stopped and suddenly looked furious. What was wrong? He cautiously looked around.

  At this time, Meng Yao slowly bent down, slowly gathered a snowball in his hand, grasped it tightly, and then suddenly arched his waist, throwing the snowball far away towards the cliff. Then, he stood still, staring at the cliff, becoming even more silent.

  Yesterday, under his proposal, the assault camp held its first party committee expansion meeting since crossing over. This proposal not only received high praise from Lu Tao but also made Gao Zhiyuan, who had just joined, tear up instantly. Meng Yao saw this detail and although he felt uneasy in his heart, he quickly grasped the key information contained in it. Compared to later generations, they should be considered as having reached the ends of the earth here. In other words, even if they do whatever they want now, there won't be anyone or any organization coming out to intervene or punish them. So why are they still so naturally and enthusiastically revealing a strong emotion towards this party committee expansion meeting in the first place?

  In fact, after the founding of the Eyu Blue Base, it was a natural thing to hold the first party committee expansion meeting. Meng Yao originally thought that he would just go through the motions, after all, for a long time, he couldn't get away with not having organizational life. At the same time, his main purpose was still to gather everyone together, think collectively and discuss seriously, in order to find out the work priorities for the next year, and best of all, come up with a five-year plan like those of later generations.

  There is ample reason. After the Spring Festival, it was 1921, the most important year in Chinese history. With the successful convening of the Party's First Congress, the party officially announced its establishment in old China. The Japanese cabinet also publicly supported Zhang Zuolin's bill, opening the curtain on its wolf-like ambition to establish a puppet Manchurian state.

  So Meng Yao's heart was extremely contradictory at this moment.

  On the eve of the party's founding, they had to decide whether to take action and participate in the historical process or make some prior contact.

  In addition, as the backbone of the future anti-Japanese war, Huangpu Military School should seize this rare historical opportunity to select some talented and militarily capable cadres before its establishment, provide them with necessary training, and then send them into the school at the time of its founding.

  Such a major issue, of course, cannot and is not possible for Meng Yao alone to bear.

  However, once the problem was raised, the party committee of the assault regiment immediately split into two factions. One faction insisted on finding the organization and revealing their identity at an appropriate time. The other faction shouted to infiltrate Huangpu and bring out a few of his own people, and then wait for an opportunity to return to the People's Liberation Army sequence.

  Meng Yao looked at the number of people on both sides, and the disparity was huge. Moreover, the intensity of the debate was almost to the point of drawing swords and guns. Seeing this, Meng Yao couldn't help but feel a wave of sadness.

  What if this is still within the party committee, and what if the problem is enlarged to the entire shock regiment?

  Meng Yao couldn't help but shudder at the thought.

  So he didn't say another word, lifted the curtain and walked out. Originally a harmonious and affectionate pair of brothers, why did they immediately turn against each other as soon as they encountered such a problem?

  "Regimental commander, aren't you going to take a look at the J-20? Are you going or not?"

  After standing for a while, Zhuge Yun's hands, which had been numb from the cold, carefully looked at Meng Yao and gently reminded him.

  "Oh," Meng Yao walked out of his contemplation, composed himself and said: "Let's go, we'll take a look at the treasure."

  Calling the J-20 a treasure is not an exaggeration. Now, apart from route guidance issues, Meng Yang's top priority is also it. Especially after the heavy snowfall. The thick snowflakes also covered the two beautiful wings of the J-20, and Meng Yang couldn't help but feel a pang of heartache.

  They must be taken out quickly and given the standard hangar, runway, and then let them fly freely. After Meng Yao gave a military order, the three-man expert group that came with the plane told Meng Yao very easily after some argumentation, in his eyes, what seemed to be a very tricky problem was just a trivial matter for them. They even childishly vowed that as long as Meng Yao could satisfy their requirements, next spring, when the snow melted, the fighter planes would be able to come down from the cliff safely.

  Meng Yao was initially overjoyed, but then his face turned gloomy.

  Rebar, cement, bearings, and tie rods? Even if scientists have invented these things, where would he go to get them back?

  But anyway, Meng Yao immediately called Cao Feibiao and asked him to bring a long list of experts. On the same day, he organized a special task force led by Zhang Jun himself, bringing a large amount of silver coins and a radio station. Two new soldiers who were former hunters volunteered to be guides.

  Yes, this is a road that is both the farthest and the nearest. If these things are not in Shanghai, then there's no need to go anywhere else. Of course, unless they have someone who can go abroad.

  Several sentries saw Meng Yao and immediately surrounded him. They were all veterans of the assault regiment, and among all the soldiers guarding the J-20 fighter jets, he required that not a single new soldier be present. The soldiers guarding the fighter jets looked very excited despite their hardships. Apparently, the appearance of the J-20 fighter jet was more effective than Lu Tao doing ideological work 100 times.

  Meng Yao reached out and touched a warrior's field cloak, asking with concern: "How is it? Is this thing the same as what the manual said, both light and warm?"

  He really didn't expect that something like this newly developed windbreaker would also appear in the equipment supplies of the assault battalion. However, at this moment, as more and more equipment was being counted out, he seemed to understand that it might be his old father-in-law's doing. Thinking about this made him want to laugh, even if they weren't transported through time and space, two weeks of long-distance running and assaulting wouldn't use up so many things. The old guy must have also been confused by the heavens.

  A warrior immediately stood at attention but mischievously said, "Report to the battalion commander, it's very warm. There is one thing, if the battalion commander sends us a pack of cigarettes for each person, that would be even better."

  Meng Yao's face suddenly showed a look of astonishment. Who would have thought that his soft Chinese cigarettes were on everyone's mind when buying cakes?

  "Shield, bring out a pack." He winced as his eyelids twitched and held out his hand to Zhuge Shield. Zhuge Shield was taken aback, looking at him, "Captain, you didn't tell me to bring cigarettes when we came out."

  Meng Yao looked at Zhuge Dan with a mixture of trust and doubt, then patted his own pocket, pulled out a half-empty box of cigarettes, and handed it to the soldier. "Smoke away, you rabbits! Two hundred sticks for one cigarette, I think it can withstand your torture."

  Just then, Lu Tao found his way over. Upon another glance, he surprisingly saw Gao Zhiyuan following behind him as well. It didn't matter that Lu Tao was there, but seeing Gao Zhiyuan also searching for him made his mood improve greatly for some reason.

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