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 here 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. Isn't it better to come to you for help?"
Zhou Wen also pretended to be wronged, looked at General Jiang pitifully and said.
General Jiang laughed loudly, 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 face 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 kid." After being convinced, 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 clearly. With such a serious injury, how can you recover after just a few months of good training?" Leading troops? Besides, it might 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 Will the warlord be willing to allow a guest army to garrison? What's more, it is an iron army that can fight the Japanese army for several months undefeated. These warlords are afraid that the guest will bully 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 heads of the Nineteenth Route Army almost turned their heads with worry. When Zhou Wen arrived, he pointed out straight to the point that the only possible garrison location for the 19th Route Army 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 dared to fight bloody battles for their country and nation against the Japanese armed to the teeth during the Songhu Anti-Japanese War and spent the rest of their lives fighting in the civil war. This was something neither general wanted to see.
But the situation is pressing, and now the Nineteenth 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 Nineteenth 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 Nineteenth Route Army has to consider.
Zhou Wen's performance on the Songhu battlefield has won the respect of the two generals, and he also has some understanding of his background and has 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, the officers and soldiers who Zhou Wen came to contact on behalf of the Central Party Education 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 was about to face a thousand-mile turn. It was okay to say that those with less serious injuries could reluctantly follow the large army, but what about the officers and soldiers whose injuries had not healed?
Can they still expect that Nanjing will send these wounded soldiers to the 19th Route Army after they recover?
Everyone knows this is impossible.
Think about it, thousands of veterans who started with the Northern Expedition, experienced countless fierce battles, and finally fought fiercely with the Japanese army for several months without defeat. They were heroically injured on the fierce and cruel battlefield. As long as they can recover, every one of them is a soldier. Each of them is a treasure in the eyes of any army.
Who wouldn’t be jealous of such officers and soldiers? Who doesn't want to be under his control?
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?
Especially the Fifth Army, which had just withdrawn to Nanjing and lost so many soldiers in Shanghai, was the unit most likely to take over these veterans first.
Therefore, the fate of these precious veterans is destined to be devoured by countless red-eyed wolves.
Of course, for these individual officers and soldiers, this 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 to 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, they might as well hand it over to Zhou Wen. At least Zhou Wen is someone they trust. At least they know that Zhou Wen will never get promoted and make a fortune for himself, so let these men who have shed blood for the country and the people, then shed tears.
