At the end of October 1938, Guangzhou fell.

With the fall of the Pearl River Delta, the Nationalist Government lost the largest channel to receive international supplies!

In this way, the Nationalist Government only left the Northwest Highway to connect with the Soviet Union, but the Northwest Highway is long, not to mention, and the road condition is also poor, and there are horse bandits along the way, and the transportation capacity is low!

In order to reverse this extremely unfavorable situation, the Nationalist Government ordered the construction of the Yunnan-Burma Highway on the one hand, and on the other hand, urgently ordered the establishment of the East Zhejiang Coastal Defense Command and the Zhejiang Anti-Enemy Self-Defense Regiment, the former to open up the communication line on the Yunnan-Burma mainland, and the latter to protect the Yinjiang River, the last coastal material import channel.

At this time, Yu Liangzhen was ordered to come to Yunxiu Building to see Principal Chang.

In the corridor on the first floor, Yu Liangzhen met Lin Wei, the director of the chamberlain.

"Brother Weiran." For President Chang's cronies, Yu Liangzhen did not dare to slack off.

"Brother Liangzhen." Lin Wei also smiled slightly, he was Principal Chang's confidant, but what about the one in front of him? If you want to talk about the closeness to the principal, Yu Liangzhen is even above him Lin Wei.

At that moment, Lin Wei smiled again and said, "The principal is waiting for you in the study, come in." ”

"Thank you, Brother Weiran, for your kind words." Yu Liangzhen shook his fist at Lin Wei and walked into the study.

In the study, Principal Chang is lying on his back in a rocking chair and closing his eyes to recuperate, in recent times, Principal Chang is in a very bad mood, the battle of Wuhan was won first and then defeated, the plan to counterattack Nanjing failed, and then Guangzhou was declared to fall, seeing that the Nationalist Government and the outside world were going to be cut off by the Japanese invaders, his mood can be good?

Yu Liangzhen quietly walked to Principal Chang's rocking chair and said softly, "Principal." ”

Principal Chang opened his eyes slightly, nodded and said; "Liangzhen, you're here."

As soon as Principal Chang finished speaking, Yu Liangzhen quickly stepped forward and helped him up.

Principal Chang stood up from the rocking chair and said worriedly: "Liangzhen, you should know how critical the current situation of the party-state is, the capacity of the Northwest Highway is low, and you can't count on it, the Yunnan-Burma Highway has just begun to be planned, and now Guangzhou has fallen again, and the connection between the Nationalist Government and the outside world has almost been completely severed!" ”

As soon as he heard this, Yu Liangzhen knew what Principal Chang meant.

At that moment, Yu Liangzhen said angrily: "Principal, as long as you can help the party and the state to solve the crisis, even if the students are smeared with liver and brains and broken bones, they will not hesitate!" ”

"Good, good." Principal Chang said happily, "I knew that you would never let me down, Liangzhen. ”

Yu Liangzhen's face was serious when he heard this, but he couldn't help sighing in his heart, if he could choose, of course he would prefer to choose the position of commander-in-chief of the 41st Group Army, not only because it was easier to serve as the commander-in-chief of the group army, and there was no trouble with chores, but also because the nine divisions of the 41st Group Army were all elite troops.

In addition, there is a more important point that the commander-in-chief of the group army does not have to bear too much responsibility, because there is still a theater commander on top of his head, but serving as the commander-in-chief of the Zhejiang Anti-Enemy Self-Defense Regiment and the commander-in-chief of the coastal defense in eastern Zhejiang is different.

Principal Chang seemed to see Yu Liangzhen's worries, waved his hand and said, "But you don't have to worry, I will never let you go to work alone, I have already chosen a right-hand man for you." ”

"Right-hand man?" Yu Liangzhen's expression moved, and he said, "Zhong Ziren?!" ”

"That's right, it's Zhong Ziren!" Principal Chang nodded and said, "Although this person is not from the Whampoa Military Academy, he is a really capable person, although he is a little arrogant, but which one of them has the ability is not like this?" After arriving in Zhejiang, you must get along with him well, and you must discuss with him more about anything. ”

"Understood!" Yu Liangzhen said very simply, "As long as it is not a major issue of principle related to the party-state, I will listen to him Zhong Yi for big and small affairs!" Especially the important military and political affairs of Yinjiang, I will hand them all over to him! ”

"By the way, you reminded me of that." Principal Chang nodded and said, "I remember that Zhong Ziren is also a good hand at handling government affairs, he did a very good job in Wuhan for more than three months, better than most mayors in our government, and even Wu Tiechi, a good hand in government affairs, praised him!" ”

"That's right." Yu Liangzhen said, "Zhong Ziren is indeed a good hand at government affairs. ”

"That's good." Principal Chang said, "Then I will give him another title, in addition to concurrently serving as the deputy chief of staff of the Zhejiang Anti-Enemy Self-Defense Corps and the chief of staff of the coastal defense of eastern Zhejiang, let him concurrently serve as the mayor of Yinjiang." ”

Yu Liangzhen thought deeply and said: "The principal's arrangement is extremely proper. ”

"You." Principal Chang pointed at Yu Liangzhen with a smile, and said, "The military situation is urgent, I won't let Zhong Yi come to Chongqing to talk to him, this conversation is up to you, in short, don't show your arrogance as a first-term student of Huangpu, and second, don't put on a shelf with Zhong Yi, you must learn to be courteous." ”

"Yes!" Yu Liangzhen said, "The student has written it down!" ”

Principal Chang waved his hand and said, "Go ahead." ”

"Yes!" Yu Liangzhen turned to leave.

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After President Chang and Yu Liangzhen finished their conversation, the order on the formation of the Zhejiang Anti-Enemy Self-Defense Regiment and the East Zhejiang Coastal Defense Headquarters was formally issued, and Yu Liangzhen was appointed deputy commander-in-chief, acting commander-in-chief, and commander-in-chief of the Zhejiang Anti-Enemy Self-Defense Regiment, and commander-in-chief of the coastal defense in eastern Zhejiang.

Zhong Yi was also officially appointed by the General Headquarters as the deputy chief of staff of the Zhejiang Anti-Enemy Self-Defense Corps and the chief of staff of the East Zhejiang Coastal Defense Command.

In the afternoon of the same day, the order arrived in Changde, and Sun Liren and others rushed to say goodbye.

At this moment, Sun Liren, Liu Yuanlin, Shi Zude, Chen Jing'an, Liu Futing, Pan Zihe, Zhou Mengxiong, Zhang Buwu and other eight people had already rushed to the division headquarters of the Honorary First Division.

Just one Tuesday away, the original ten brigade commanders of the Wuhan Garrison were all together.

It's just that Erzi will never be able to be with Sun Liren and them.

Because after the Japanese army came to Wuhan again, Tuesday Zi took his garrison division to blatantly defect, openly defected to Little Japan and became a traitor, and now he is the chairman of the Japanese puppet Wuhan maintenance and the commander of the first division of the puppet army.

"Ziren, I really didn't expect you to go to Yinjiang in the end." Sun Li is humane.

"But fortunately, this time it's the chief of staff." Liu Yuanlin said, "Instead of the chief of staff, you can be the master." ”

Shi Zude said: "I know a little about Yu Liangzhen, it is rumored that he is the nephew of Principal Chang, which is a false rumor, but he is the nephew of Yu Feipeng, Minister of Communications and Quartermaster of Quartermaster, this is a fake exchange, in addition, Principal Chang has a lot of trust in Yu Feipeng and Yu Liangzhen, the uncle and nephew, this is also true!" ”