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Chapter 1075: Turning Enemies into Friends (4)

Chiang Kai-shek's greatest purpose in Chongqing was not to direct the suppression of bandits, but to open up a good situation for the smooth administration of the new Sichuan Provincial Government, which was established under the strong intervention and supervision of the central government, and the Sichuan camp in which Chiang Kai-shek, the supreme commander of the armed forces, exercised military command. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

Dozens of Sichuan Army generals Liu Xiang and dozens of other people, as well as Gu Zhutong, the new director of the Sichuan camp, He Guoguang, chief of staff, and Zeng Kuanqing, secretary general, and other officials of the camp did not wait for the planes to stop.

The cabin door opened, the wooden ladder was lowered, and everyone immediately gathered around to salute solemnly, but who knew that the first one to come out was Wang Shihe, the chief of the guard who had followed the chairman for many years, and the next ones were all the staff officers and guards of the chairman's chamberlain, as well as the staff officers and guards of the headquarters of the An Jiajun, where was the shadow of Chiang Kai-shek?

Wang Shihe was startled when he saw the generals and *** who had more than 100 people in front of him saluting him, and then came to his senses, knowing that everyone had made a mistake, he hurriedly said hello to Gu Zhutong, He Guoguang, Zeng Guangqing and others, pointed to the silver plane opposite, and explained embarrassedly:

"I sat on the plane opposite...... Look, it's down. ”

More than 100 people immediately turned around, the scene was quite spectacular, Gu Zhutong, He Guoguang and Liu Xiang, the three leaders of the three, walked quickly through the crowd, appeared in front of the greeting team again, and saw that the smooth and neat cabin door of the AN5 large aircraft had been opened, and the wide metal ladder that automatically stretched out slowly landed, and then Chiang Kai-shek, who was dressed in military uniform and wearing a black cloak, stood at the wide cabin door and waved politely to everyone below.

Chiang Kai-shek's handsome and resolute face behind him is now the deputy chief of staff of the whole army, the youngest executive committee member of the Central Committee, and the commander of the An Jiajun An Yi.

In the face of the spectacular scene of more than 100 civil and military officers saluting and bowing, An Yi, who followed Chiang Kai-shek off the plane, was so happy that he didn't have the slightest feeling of being a fox and a tiger, but felt that it was a matter of course. In any case, the highest military rank among all the people present is Chiang Kai-shek, although An Yi is a lieutenant general and a general, but how to say it is also three gold stars, the same as Liu Xiang, the highest military rank, than He Guoguang, Gu Zhu and others have one more gold star, and now An Yi is also the deputy chief of staff of the whole army and the important position of the Central Executive Committee, and it seems natural for everyone to salute him.

Chiang Kai-shek and An Yi, who stepped off the plane, saluted and shook hands with Liu Xiang, and under the guidance of Liu Xiang and He Guoguang, they met with the main generals of the Sichuan Army.

An Yi, like Chiang Kai-shek, met most of the generals in central Sichuan for the first time, but he knew the general situation and appearance of the generals in the photos and resume files, so no one was mistaken.

Eight generals, including Yang Sen, Wang Jiling, Tang Shizun, Deng Xihou, Tian Songyao, Luo Zezhou, Li Jiayu, and Liu Cunhou, shook hands with Chiang Kai-shek and An Yi respectively.

Fan Shaozeng, known as Shundian, called Haiting, nicknamed "Fan Haer", "Da Lao Zao". He is a horse and a native of Qinghe Township, Dazhu County, Sichuan Province. Since childhood, he didn't like to read, and often went to the teahouse to "listen to books", and longed for the heroes of the rivers and lakes to rob the rich and help the poor. At the age of thirteen, he joined the robe brother, participated in the alliance at the end of the Qing Dynasty, and in the second year of the Republic of China, Fan Shaozeng failed to participate in the "Gui Chou Anti-Yuan", robbed property in Quxian County and Dazhu border, bought guns, and expanded his strength. In the fifth year of the Republic of China, Fan Shaozeng participated in the anti-Yuan Protectorate War, and two years later, he was recruited by Yan Deji, commander-in-chief of the Sichuan-Yunnan-Guizhou-Yasukuo Allied Army, and served as the commander of the model battalion, and later served as the regiment commander. In October of the ninth year of the Republic of China, Fan Shaozeng served as the head of the Yuji Tang Department of the Sixth Division of the First Army of Xiong Kewu and was stationed in Yunyang. During this period, he returned to Qinghechang in Dazhu County, and was invited by the family of the person who had robbed him to repay the loss. In March of the twelfth year of the Republic of China, Fan Shaozeng was assigned to the Yang Sen Department and served as the commander of the 8th Brigade of the 4th Division, and was later promoted to the commander of the 9th Mixed Brigade. In September of the 15th year of the Republic of China, the Northern Expeditionary Army entered the Lianghu battlefield, Yang Sen was appointed by Chiang Kai-shek as the commander of the 20th Army of the National Revolutionary Army, and Fan Shaozeng was appointed as the commander of the 7th Division of the army. Four. One or two later, Fan Shaozeng was appointed by Chiang as the commander of the Sichuan-Hubei Frontier Army, but soon failed, and the defense was lost, so he took refuge in Liu Xiang and served as the commander of the Fourth Division.

Fan Shaozeng's communication skills are outstanding, and he is good friends with Du Yuesheng and Zhang Xiaolin, who are green heads in Shanghai, and was accepted as a closed disciple by Zhang Jinhu, the predecessor of the "Renshe". Du Yuesheng introduced Dai Li to Fan Shaozeng, and also gave Fan Shaozeng British-style munitions that could equip a battalion of people, and his experience could be written into a book.

The reason why An Yi has a deep impression of Fan Ha'er, in addition to the vague impression of "Commander Har'er" and "Commander Har'er" that still appears in his mind, is that he is well-known and lustful, and there are more than 30 famous and well-known aunts and wives around Fan Shaozeng, which is eye-popping. The year before last, Fan Shaozeng spent more than 200,000 oceans to build a mansion in Chongqing that occupies about half of the street - Fanzhuang. The village is a garden-style building, there are three small western-style buildings, each of which is three-storey, from high to low, arranged horizontally. Later, he built a slightly smaller mansion in Lailong Lane and a villa on the south bank. After the completion of Fan Zhuang, Fan was busy with military affairs every day, and he embraced his wife and concubine in the new mansion. In order to manage the lives of dozens of wives, Fan set up a chief steward and several stewards, who were accompanied by car drivers, soldiers, gardeners, street runners, miscellaneous workers, Chinese cooks, western chefs and breeders, etc., no less than 100 people. In order to keep up with the pace of the times, Fan Shaozeng also made a special trip to hire a group of teachers from Shanghai to train his wives and concubines to learn Western culture.

Fan Harr seems to be much fatter than in the photo, with a figure like Maitreya Buddha and the same smiling face, which makes Chiang Kai-shek feel much happier as soon as they meet.

Fan Shaozeng saluted, held Chiang Kai-shek's hand tightly with both hands, and said happily: "It's hard work!" ”

Chiang Kai-shek, who was not good at words, smiled and said with an unprecedented smile: "I have long admired the name of General Fan, haha!" ”

The audience burst into laughter, Fan Ha'er laughed even more happily, and then when he shook hands with An Yi, he did not call An Yi "Deputy Chief An" like everyone else, but greeted him warmly:

"Hello Brother An! Brother Yunong still called the day before yesterday, so that he had time to contact Brother An more, but he couldn't take a break from his busy military affairs! Haha, it's comforting to see it today! ”

An Yi immediately remembered Dai Li's entrustment, remembered the incident when Fan Shaozeng and Dai Li worshiped in Shanghai, and knew that Fan Shaozeng, one of the bosses of the robe brothers in Sichuan, had a close relationship with Du Yuesheng, the boss of the Shanghai Qinghong Gang, and the two gangs had long-term business contacts, so he replied very politely and in a low voice:

"When Brother Fan has time to come to Xufu, the younger brother will definitely sweep the couch to greet him. Brother Yunong and Mr. Du once chatted with the younger brother, and praised Brother Fan's good amount of wine, and the younger brother hid a few bottles of good wine from Xufu that had been cellared for decades, and we had to have a good drink when the time came. ”

Fan Shao was overjoyed, clasped An Yi's hand, and laughed happily: "Oops, oops!" Brother Ann is polite! When the time comes, I will bring my cousins (Sichuan wife) to visit! ”

This smile attracted everyone's attention, Liu Xiang and other generals in central Sichuan were quite surprised and very envious when they saw Fan Harr and An Yi so close, and secretly wondered about the relationship between the two, and even thought about whether Fan Harr and An Yi had already secretly colluded, otherwise why only Fan Harr's cargo ship passed through the Yichang waterway guarded by the An Jiajun anti-smuggling team the most smoothly? didn't know that this was the result of Fan Shaozeng opening up the joint to An Yi through Dai Li.

After laughing and parting for the time being, Chiang Kai-shek explained to everyone that he could not stay and needed to rush back to Syria, but the reason was to command the suppression of the Zhumao Red Army that had entered the Sichuan-Yunnan border. An Yi felt that there was nothing wrong with saying this, and nodded and smiled apologetically at everyone.

On the plane, Chiang Kai-shek had a special discussion with An Yi about this, and there was no need for An Jiajun to join the ranks of conquest and suppression, with Lu Han's army spreading a net to encircle and block, Shi Zhen's tens of thousands of security troops to strictly defend it, and Xue Yue's army pursuing it step by step. For the sake of insurance, Chiang Kai-shek told An Yi not to withdraw his troops so early, and the army of An Jiajun still needed to stay on the Sichuan-Guizhou border to defend it strictly, which put huge pressure on the Zhu Mao Red Army, completely cut off their idea of going north, and it was not too late to retreat when the war was nearing the end.

An Yi was also happy to do so, and very readily agreed, saying that he would make every effort to handle the Sino-Burmese border issue in accordance with Chiang Kai-shek's instructions, so as to solve the biggest hidden danger in the southwest frontier and win the diplomatic initiative.

Liu Xiang and other generals saw He Guoguang, Gu Zhutong and Zeng Guangqing send An Yi to the spiral staircase of the beautiful big plane together, and talked cordially, the relationship was very harmonious, and they couldn't help but sigh secretly about An Yi's status and popularity, and also had a better understanding of An Yi.

After a while, An Yi finished talking with Gu Zhu and others, and An Yi, who had finished saluting, strode onto the plane, and Liu Xiang smiled slightly and asked Chiang Kai-shek to walk to the special car.

Chiang Kai-shek raised his hand, politely said Wait a while, stood in place and watched An Yi board the cabin door, waved to An Yi who stood at the door and saluted him respectfully, and then said the word "please" to Liu Xiang.

Liu Xiang hurriedly accompanied Chiang Kai-shek to the special car, but he was deeply shocked by An Yi's status in Chiang Kai-shek's mind.

Getting into the car, Liu Xiang exchanged a few words with Chiang Kai-shek, and couldn't help but look at An Yi's plane again, and found that the hatch had been closed, and the two huge propellers were speeding up.

At 11 o'clock in the morning of the next day, the British negotiating team headed by Ambassador to China Jia Degan flew to Minjiang Airport by chartered flight, and An Yi led Yang Bin, Ye Cheng, Jiang Yunshan, Dong Zechuan and other military and political dignitaries to greet them at the airport.

After the meeting, Gadgan, who liked to embody the ****** and unique feelings of his country, made a request to meet his "unfortunate compatriots" in the prisoner of war camp.

An Yi readily agreed, gave a few words to Xu Boqian, the head of the liaison office, and invited the guests to board the car.

The prisoner of war camp set up on the edge of the military horse farm has been transformed into a garden-style prison hidden in beautiful landscapes and tall trees through the joint efforts of the captives and the engineers of the Anjia Army.

The spring in southern Sichuan comes very early, the mountains are full of green, the wide grassland has been covered by the endless tender green, the little bit of withered yellow at the foot of the distant mountains gradually fades, more than 300 horses of all sizes wander leisurely in the warm sunshine and cool spring breeze, looking at it, it is like a beautiful landscape painting.

The convoy entered the military horse farm through two checkpoints, drove across the quaint new stone bridge into the prison gate, and stopped in front of the two-storey Chinese-style office building with a height of more than 30 meters.

The Englishmen emerged from the carriage one after another, looking curiously at the neat green belt in the wide courtyard and the two small pavilions dotted among them, and seemed to be very surprised: the courtyard building, although square and solemn, could not be reminiscent of a prison.

Jia Degan asked An Yi curiously: "General, are all your prisons in southern Sichuan like this?" ”

"Nope! The only exception to this prison is this prison, which holds not only prisoners of war, but also criminals sentenced to imprisonment by military courts at all levels in our army, not only criminals from the troops I lead, but also criminals sent by the Central Army and other important military departments. ”

An Yi smiled when he said this: "Mr. Ambassador, do you know who participated in and built the green design of this courtyard and the layout of the outbuildings?" ”

Jia Degan looked around, and there was a feeling that seemed familiar, and he immediately asked An Yi with interest, "Respected general, can you tell me?" ”

An Yi nodded: "Of course, the layout design and part of the building of this courtyard are the result of the participation and hard work of the prisoners of war of your country who are held here, so to speak, they have contributed to the construction of this prison. If you are interested, when you have met with the prisoners of war, you and your colleagues can walk out of this prison with the prisoners of war and go to the hay fields in the upper reaches of the creek, and you will see that the entire forage field is built in the English style, with storehouses built on the hillside, solid wood platforms for resting and chatting along the clear stream, and beautiful stables, all designed and built by your unfortunate compatriots themselves, and some of them have developed a deep bond with our fine breed horses. The military horse farm authorized the prisoners of war to join the ranks of raising and taming horses, and of course, the work of those people was relatively high. ”

An Yi's English is quite fluent, and the meaning expressed is clear and clear, and a group of British people who heard An Yi's words exclaimed in surprise and felt incredible.

Jia Degan is very aware of the kindness and significance of An Yi's actions, and knows that only through a certain intensity of labor can the depressed prisoners of war be emotionally stable, so that the prisoners of war can breathe fresh air in their labor, experience the breath of ***, and experience the joy and meaning of life from the fruits of their labor, without the need to endure the pain and suffering of living in a cold and narrow cell every day.

"Thank you, General, thank you and your army for your generosity! This place is a hundred times better than I imagined, although there have been some reports to me from the embassy and consulate officials who came to visit me before, but after coming here, I feel more deeply, and I hope that after I meet my compatriots, I will get more comfort and a higher evaluation of the general. ”

After Jia Degan finished speaking, he showed a sincere smile and stretched out his hand to An Yi again.