mesbooks Chapter 581: Reconstruction (1)
Chapter 581: Reconstruction (1)
March in the south of the Yangtze River is like a lively and graceful ink painting. The spring breeze is gentle, blowing through thousands of willow branches, and the tender green willows are like green smoke.
Spring here comes at least one month earlier than in the Northeast!
Zhenjiang,
In a three-story building in the north of the city,
There was a sign at the door that read "The 11th Kuomintang River Defense Battalion".
In a room upstairs,
An officer in his thirties looked delighted. He said to a pretty woman,
"Wife! I finally got the boat tickets. We can leave tonight!"
The woman looked melancholy, but she said slowly,
"If we leave now, will we say goodbye to Ming'er forever?"
The officer sighed and said comfortingly,
"Wife, Xiao Ming is very lucky, maybe he will be fine! I believe that in the future, our family will be reunited one day!"
The woman was silent. How could a few words express the pain in her heart?
There was a knock on the door outside the house.
A voice sounded,
"Captain, the Chief of Staff is back and has something urgent to report!"
"Well, I'll be there in a minute!"
In an office downstairs,
Wu Zhengping, the chief of staff of the 11th Jiangfang Battalion, smoked a cigarette in the room.
The door opened,
Wu Zhengping stood up immediately.
"Master's seat!"
Lei Zhi, the captain of the Jiang Defense Battalion, said unhappily,
"What division commander? Now they are all captains!"
"Yes, Captain. I went to Nanjing today to do some work. I heard some good news at the Jiang Defense Command. The KMT and the CPC have started peace talks and will not fight anymore!" Wu Zhengping smiled widely.
Lei Zhi smiled without comment.
"Do you think we still have the capital to negotiate with the Communist Army now?"
Wu Zhengping said hurriedly,
"Hasn't the president changed? Maybe the Communist Party doesn't want to fight anymore. People in the headquarters are still saying that Britain and the United States are planning to intervene and mediate, and the Kuomintang and the Communist Party are about to divide the country and rule!"
Lei Zhi snorted coldly.
"Chief of Staff, you are so naive! Are the Communists willing to share the river with us now? In my opinion, this negotiation is not equal at all, unless the Nationalist government is willing to surrender!"
Wu Zhengping said hurriedly,
“Don’t they listen to what the Americans say?”
"The Americans, humph, I don't think they can be trusted at all. If the Americans wanted to intervene, would they have waited until today? They don't want to get into trouble at all!"
There was the sound of an airplane in the sky.
Lei Zhi opened the window.
Two planes are circling high in the sky!
He pointed to the sky and said,
"Look, the Communist Party's reconnaissance planes are scouting the defenses of Jiangnan almost every day. They have a powerful air force and millions of ground forces. It is impossible for them to share the world with the Kuomintang!"
Wu Zhengping looked at the sky and was speechless. The air supremacy now belonged to the Communist Army, and the National Army's aircraft were almost completely lost. He couldn't help but say with some dismay,
"Commander, that night in Yingkou left a huge shadow on our brothers. In the end, only less than 1000 people in our division escaped. If this battle is unavoidable, it will be a dead end for our brothers!"
Lei Zhi was previously the commander of the 52th Division of the 25nd Army of the National Army. After he was defeated in Yingkou and narrowly escaped, the remaining remnants were directly incorporated into the Jiang Defense Force, and he was promoted from division commander to battalion commander!
This finally made him realize that the Nationalist government was using them as cannon fodder to fight a hopeless war!
He glanced at Wu Zhengping, and his heart was also tangled. After all, this chief of staff was his confidant and had been with him for more than seven years.
"Wu Zhengping, give up your fantasy. If you want to survive, there is only one way!"
Wu Zhengping smiled bitterly and said with a look of despair,
"Commander, we have so little troops left, it's estimated that it's not enough to fill the gaps in the Communist army's charge... What other good solutions can we have? Unless..."
He suddenly seemed to have thought of something, looked at Lei Zhi and said resolutely,
"Master, don't worry, I will attack wherever you point, and I promise to do everything as you say!"
Lei Zhi gritted his teeth and said,
"Of the thirty-six strategies, running away is the best one! This is the only solution now!"
Wu Zhengping said in a trembling voice,
"Commander, have you thought about it? We only have so many people. After we go there, I'm afraid the most we can get is the salary of a battalion commander!"
Lei Zhi was stunned for a moment, and finally understood.
"What nonsense! I didn't say I wanted to join the Communist Party!"
"Then where are we going?"
"Let's go to Nanyang! Many people in our village are in Nanyang. Now my brother is also there. He has a farm of several hundred acres. He has no worries about food and drink! I don't want to get involved in this chaotic world anymore! There are tens of thousands of islands in Nanyang.
If we go to the South Seas and occupy an island, we will definitely live like gods!"
Lei Zhi's hometown is in Taishan, Guangdong. Many people in the village have gone to Southeast Asia. Some people who have returned home also said that several countries in Southeast Asia have just started to seek independence. Now many islands are unattended and no one cares.
For him, the move to Southeast Asia was actually something he had already considered. No matter who he followed, it was better to control his own destiny. He had already contacted more than a dozen confidants and planned to take his family to Southeast Asia!
After listening to this, Wu Zhengping thought about it and realized that if he continued to listen to the National Government, it would be very dangerous and almost a dead end. It would be better for him to listen to the commander. Maybe there would be a way out. It would not be too late to come back when the situation stabilized!
He said quickly,
"I've made up my mind. I'm willing to follow the Master to Southeast Asia!"
Xuzhou City,
Mount Tai East Barracks,
The Chinese People's Liberation Army Xuzhou Tank Training Center,
Tanks, armored vehicles, and self-propelled artillery were constantly moving in and out, and intense training was underway.
Starting from New Year's Day this year, all the newly produced tanks of Mulan Arsenal were deployed to the First, Second and Third Field Armies!
This is also for the sake of balance.
Now the battle of crossing the river is under intensive preparation!
The 1st Assault Group and the 1st Battle Group, which originally wanted to return to Mulan for rest, are now even busier! Both units are now conducting personnel training for various field armies in Xuzhou, covering communications, tanks, self-propelled artillery, and more!
A jeep drove out of the base gate.
Tang Yantian, Kang Huaifu, Cheng Yue, and Yuan Canhai got in the car. They had made an appointment with Ding Shan to have dinner at the camp of the 1st Battle Group tonight!
When passing by the foot of Quanshan Mountain, several people were attracted by a large construction site on the side of the road.
The construction site seemed to have just started. Amid the roar of machines, several excavators were waving their arms and trucks were transporting debris out!
The wooden gate has the words written on it.
"Xuzhou Chemical Plant Phase I Project!"
The key construction unit is Hongfa Construction Company of Fangzheng County, Mulan Special Zone!
The construction unit is the Fangzheng County Construction Bureau of Mulan Special Zone!
Kang Huaifu smiled.
"What's going on? Why did Fangzheng County come to Xuzhou to work?"
Tang Yantian thought for a moment and said,
"When I went home for the Chinese New Year, my brother-in-law told me that the Special Administrative Region would provide one-on-one assistance to several places in the interior of China after the Chinese New Year. Is this related to this?"
A few people stopped their cars out of curiosity and ran to the construction site to take a look. It was indeed the case. Zhu Xiaolong, a staff member in charge of the project management section of the Fangzheng County Construction Bureau, said,
"We from Fangzheng County came to Xuzhou to help build four projects this time, including a thermal power plant, a chemical plant, a fertilizer plant, and an engineering machinery plant. Seven people from our county's Construction Bureau alone came. They will go home when the work is finished!"