Chapter 66: Tongguan Nostalgia
Life is not good without bandits to fight, it is much more monotonous, except for the ten kilometers of armed cross-country in the morning and the training of sending and receiving radio operators sent by the division headquarters in the evening!
All that was left was the drowsy ride in the car!
The Nationalist government was really useless. There was nothing like the infrastructure maniacs of later generations in our great China. The Yellow River, the mother river of the Chinese nation, only has three bridges in Jinan, Zhengzhou and Lanzhou!
It is simply wishful thinking to drive a car across the Yellow River on a bridge.
The bridges in Zhengzhou and Jinan are all railway bridges. In order to cross a bridge, you have to take a train with a truck. It's crazy!
Fortunately, Zhou Xiaoshan doesn’t have to worry about this.
Chu Tianshu had already found out everything.
There is a ferry near Tongguan, and Yan Laoxi specially built a highway of more than 600 kilometers to connect Taiyuan and Fenglingdu.
This ferry is too small. Although it is powered by a ship, it only takes a lot of money and half a day to transport two trucks at a time.
It took the Sichuan Army's sixteen vehicles to cross the Yellow River intact.
The soldiers of the special forces battalion were all on the other side of the river, and they all recited and wrote out Zhang Yanghao's poem Nostalgia for Tongguan.
The peaks and ridges are like gathering, the waves are like raging, the mountains and rivers are inside and outside the Tongguan Road. Looking at the Western Capital, I am hesitant.
Sadly, the palaces of Qin and Han dynasties have all turned to dust. When the country prospers, the people suffer; when the country perishes, the people suffer.
What Zhou Xiaoshan was thinking in his heart was that they first met at Fengling Ferry, and the first sight of Yang Guo ruined his life!
Where should my Yang Guo be?
Bah, after being in the army for so long, both men and women have illusions. I’m not interested in gays!
When I arrived at the 66th Division, I didn't see any beautiful women that made my heart beat. Feng Ping and Shen Hong were both taken, and they soon found their lovers!
Besides, these women are not my type!
Zhou Xiaoshan had seen the two fairies, Shan Yang and Wang Ruyan, many times when he was monitoring Yongzhou. Their graceful figures made him swallow his saliva whenever he thought of them.
I can't handle it. If I sleep in the same bed with a woman like this, I'll have to keep one eye open even in my dreams.
The mouth of a bamboo snake and the sting of a yellow-tailed bee are not poisonous. The most poisonous thing is a woman’s heart!
It must be that the master is capable and took them all home.
What a talent!
However, Zhou Xiaoshan looked at himself in the small mirror and thought he was still quite handsome.
Especially the rank of major on the collar!
Awesome!
Where was he going? Beijing and Tianjin, where there were many universities and lots of female students waiting for him.
A young and promising officer and a beautiful girl, they are a perfect match.
The school uniform of the Republic of China, she has never had plastic surgery, and even makeup is very rare, she looks so pure!
A dream scene.
Inadvertently, a love affair spanning a century!
While this idiot was basking in the afterglow of the sunset and drooling, all the trucks of the Sichuan Army had crossed the Yellow River!
Zheng Chunhua and Chu Tianshu were both calling on this bastard to get in the car.
After several calls, the boy didn't hear anything.
Qin Guoliang and Feng Tiankui have led three main brigades of the 66th Division and a Bazhong Independent Brigade composed of defeated soldiers to occupy Bazhong.
They had just finished a military meeting. According to the Marshal's deployment, Huang Yumin led his old troops, the 122nd Brigade, out of the southeast and marched towards Wanyuan. Qin Guoliang led the Bazhong Independent Brigade to garrison in Bazhong. Feng Tiankui led the remaining two brigades back to Yongzhou!
Marshal Liu's order was very clear, to let the 66th Division take the lead. Marshal Liu has done his best, and the Nanjing government will reward him.
Even if the territory of Hubei was recovered, it would have to be handed over to the Central Army coming from Hubei. Yang Sen had already taken over the territory of Suiding.
As for Bazhong, Nanjiang and other poor areas, they suffered a severe drought last year and had no harvest, and were in urgent need of disaster relief. The Chairman simply handed them over to Feng Tiankui, draining his financial resources, and even two independent brigades were temporarily placed under the 66th Division.
The only consolation was that the Marshal allocated the promised 100,000 silver dollars and also entrusted several trading companies to send a lot of seeds!
The Nanjing government did not give a penny except for a commendation.
Luo Jialie, Qin Guoliang and Huang Yumin were so angry that they started cursing at the military meeting!
There are policies and measures to counter!
Feng Tiankui immediately took advantage of the situation. No matter whether he was advancing himself to confront Yang Sen or Luo Jialie was leading his men to Hanyuan, he did not care about the gains and losses of a city or a place. The key was to use the excuse of arresting the Red Army to relocate the population and fill the gaps in Bazhong and Nanjiang, where nine out of ten houses were empty due to natural disasters and wars. He used work instead of relief, dug ponds in low-lying areas, built dams in streams to store water, and resumed production using the grain seeds sent by the Marshal to several trading companies and foreign firms.
The troops will be divided tomorrow . Qin Guoliang, who stayed behind in Bazhong, invited the commander and Luo Jialie to his office.
"Commander, I haven't seen Zhou Xiaoshan around these days. I'm not used to it. I want to ask him a lot of things, but the telegram doesn't explain it clearly! Do you think he can find a university for you when he goes to Pingjin to recruit college students?"
"There is nothing in this world that this kid wouldn't dare to do. At the beginning, the division commander agreed to let him seek revenge on Liu Chenghuo, but he used only one company to defeat Liu Chenghuo's army hiding in Qinglonggou! The Red Army really got a big advantage. Not only did Lingjiu Peak not worry about Liu Chenghuo's counterattack, but they also led their troops down the mountain and ambushed the defeated soldiers together with the troops ambushing at the entrance of the ditch. Not only did they suffer few casualties, but they also reportedly captured a lot of prisoners!"
After listening to Luo Jialie's words, Feng Tiankui and Qin Guoliang burst into laughter!
The Red Army advanced quickly and released the prisoners after disarming them.
Well, this time Zhou Xiaoshan’s roar in Qinglonggou has shown its power again.
Whether they were prisoners captured and released by the Red Army, or defeated soldiers who were not captured, they all ran to Yongzhou, crying and shouting that they wanted to be soldiers of the 66th Division. The garrison guarded the training equipment of the guard battalion, selected and selected again, and not only filled the establishment of the Yongzhou Security Regiment, but also recruited two full regiments of soldiers.
The 66th Division was lying on Liu Chenghuo, having sucked enough blood!
"Zhou Xiaoshan suggested that the division headquarters increase the establishment of directly affiliated troops, expand the guard battalion into a guard regiment, and establish an engineering battalion, a communications battalion, and a supply battalion. The commander was still worried about which troops to withdraw. Now, the people in the rear guard office are very arrogant, saying that they can do it, not to mention two directly affiliated battalions, even a directly affiliated regiment!"
"I'm afraid this kid doesn't even know that his two security company commanders have been promoted to battalion commanders!"
"I'm going to meet these two company commanders when I go back. If they don't have the ability, they will have to be removed from their posts and be responsible for street affairs. The battalion commander will be replaced by a top soldier from the special forces battalion. These two have not been in the army for long, and I'm worried that their training level is not good enough. Although the security regiment is a security regiment, Zhou Xiaoshan said that the name is not important. The key is strength. The combat effectiveness must be able to compete with the main regiment of the 66th Division!"
Luo Jialie and Qin Guoliang nodded again. They agreed with the commander's statement!
"Commander, do you think this guy can get anything out of going to Pingjin and North China to attract investment?"
"It's difficult, harder than climbing to heaven!"
