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Chapter 1001 The Pillars of Material

"As of 28 February, it was fully verified that the troops marching to the line from Rolling Long to Talok were the 6th, 7th, and 11th divisions of the Burmese Army, each with an artillery regiment equipped with 36 guns, and the number of officers and men was about 9,000......"

"The British Cavalry Brigade stationed in Lashio the day before yesterday numbered about 7,450 men. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info”

"The enemy army quickly built fortifications along the border line, and urgently recruited tens of thousands of Burmese laborers to expand the border roads, but there is still no sign of attack......

"The people of the five border counties have all been transferred, with an average retreat of 20 kilometers, the three main divisions of our army have been prepared as planned, and the second and fourth brigades of the garrison headquarters and the five regiments of the engineer corps have all been transferred to the reserve ......."

An Yi put down the stack of telegrams in his hand, lit a cigarette and walked to the sunlight outside the command room, looking at the new shoots spit out from the big trees in the compound of the Military Commission, and thinking carefully.

Yesterday afternoon, An Yi was ordered to return to the General Staff Headquarters in Nanjing to preside over daily affairs, but all affairs were handed over to the heads of various departments and departments, so that while paying attention to the changes in international silver prices, he would go all out to deal with the increasingly severe situation on the Sino-Burmese border.

In the past four days, tremendous changes have taken place on the Burmese side of the Sino-Burmese border, with an infantry brigade of the British army taking the lead in marching into Lashio, followed by three Burmese army divisions marching in unison, respectively stationed on the southern side of the Sino-Burmese border on the line from Rolling Lane to Talok, and the 26th Army, which was in full array, did not find any attempt by the British and Burmese troops to attack across the border, but the 4th Air Regiment stationed in Simao had three encounters with the British reconnaissance plane formation, and in the end the enemy planes took the initiative to withdraw to the airspace of Burma, and there was no exchange of fire.

The sudden deployment of the Anglo-Burmese army still made An Yi unable to judge - while the Anglo-Burmese army was pressing the southern Yunnan border with heavy troops, only the fifth division of the Burmese army had arrived in the western direction of Yunnan, plus the British army's "Cleveland Lancer Honor Regiment" stationed in Myitkyina, with a total strength of less than 15,000 people, and so far, there has been no sign of increasing troops in western Yunnan. This abnormal phenomenon made An Yi and his staff team deeply puzzled and puzzled, and for a while they could not judge the intention and main direction of the Anglo-Burmese army's such a move.

Zhan Zhi hurriedly went up to the temporary headquarters in the conference room on the second floor, and under Shen Fengdao's signal, he walked out of the balcony and came to An Yi's side:

"Commander, according to the instructions of the commission, President Wang has arranged a meeting between the commander and the British ambassador Gadgan at the reception hall of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Central Government at 3 o'clock in the afternoon."

"Have the people from all walks of life who have surrounded the British Embassy dispersed for several days?" An Yi asked.

"Dispersed, a battalion of the gendarmerie headquarters and more than 1,000 people from the police station forcibly dispersed, otherwise the British would not have agreed to hold a meeting." Zhan Zhi smiled helplessly.

An Yi said unhappily: "Joke, I don't plan to see that Jiadegan at all, he called the commission three times and asked to meet me, but he delayed the meeting time under such and such an excuse, if it weren't for the fact that the British and Burmese troops did not make any changes, I really suspect that this guy is deliberately confusing us, or playing a delaying tactic." What's the news from Liu Qing's side? ”

"It's still the same, Liu Qing called from Kunming early in the morning and said that Huan Qi and General Lu Han were also puzzled, the border of western Yunnan was quiet, and it seemed that the British and Burmese troops did not plan to launch any military action from western Yunnan." Expand to answer.

An Yi said "um", looked at his watch and returned to the room, walked to the map of the Yunnan-Burma border, and took the test again.

After a while, a cup of steaming fragrant tea was handed to An Yi, An Yi took a sip, and then remembered to glance at the young lieutenant standing behind him:

"Boham, graduated from military school?"

Zhao Bohan, who was tall and fit, was quite shy: "Report to the commander, he graduated in August last year, and after leaving the Central Military Academy, he was returned to the Syrian Headquarters as a staff officer, and then transferred to the front line of Wulong to suppress bandits, serving as a training instructor of the local garrison regiment, and he was just transferred back to the headquarters operations department before the Spring Festival, and he came to follow the commander last week on the order of Chief Liu Qing. ”

An Yi smiled kindly: "Look at my memory, life flies so fast...... How is your uncle? Have you been in touch lately? ”

"Yes, I also received a letter from my uncle last week, he took my father and my mother to Baoding for the Spring Festival, my mother likes my uncle's son and Chief Hu's youngest son, and he is reluctant to let go with the two little guys all day long, so my uncle urges me to find someone to marry quickly, and it is estimated that the two elders will return to their hometown in Texas for a while." Zhao Bohan replied in a low voice.

"Then you have to think about it, it is estimated that your mother is looking forward to holding her grandson when she sees someone else's son." An Yi was also happy.

"How can it? My subordinate has just turned twenty-four years old, so it's early! Brother Ziyan is two years older than his subordinates, isn't he also unmarried? Zhao Zihan saw An Yi's confidential secretary Liang Ziyan coming to his side, so he went around Liang Ziyan as well.

An Yi smiled, took the report handed by Liang Ziyan, walked to the big table, put down the teacup and read it carefully.

Liang Ziyan patted Zhao Bohan's hand, turned to leave, and was stopped by An Yi after taking a few steps: "Ziyan, come over for a while...... You've been with me for almost a year, haven't you? ”

"Ten months and twenty-five days."

Liang Ziyan, who graduated from the special major of the non-commissioned officer school and won the first place in the second military skills competition of the An Jiajun, realized something.

An Yi nodded: "You are very careful and make rapid progress, but you can't always stay by my side." There is a shortage of people on Commander Xia's side, and the newly formed special service group lacks a battalion commander, so you can go. ”

"Commander, my subordinates really want to go down to the grassroots level, but my subordinates want to learn more from the commander, let's talk about it in two years." Liang Ziyan and An Yi have established a deep relationship, and they are really reluctant to leave for a while.

An Yi waved his hand: "From Guan Shan to Zhang Cheng, and then to Changhe, have you seen anyone who has followed me for more than two years?" Think about it again, Li Jun, the independent regiment commander who is now under the command of Commander Hu Jialin, and Ye Ziquan, who is studying at Lu University, which one of them has not fought hard again and again?

"You already have the corresponding knowledge, and have practical experience, and your horizons have broadened a lot, or we are the leader of our special profession, if you don't use the knowledge and application you have learned in actual combat, wouldn't you waste your time? You can't be a confidential staff officer for the rest of your life, right?

"At present, southern Yunnan is the time to employ people, and only the current southern Yunnan has a war to fight in recent years, if you want to go further, you must pile up your combat achievements in actual combat, review it well after this battle, and strive to be admitted to the next and next army university, otherwise you will directly take the quota for studying in Germany at the end of the year, and you must take this road when you become a general in the future, otherwise you will have to slowly stumble, let's go!"

An Yi's decision was too sudden, although Liang Ziyan had a hunch, but it was really difficult to give up for a while, his eyes were slightly red at the moment, his lips under his straight nose trembled a few times, and he couldn't say a word.

"Zhao Bohan?" An Yi shouted.

"Here!"

Zhao Bohan resisted the excitement in his heart, trotted a few steps, and came to An Yi's side to stand like a javelin.

"From today onwards, you will take over the confidential secretary work of Staff Officer Liang, and you will be ready later, and come with me to meet that Jia Degan in the afternoon."

After An Yi gave the order, he took out a pen and signed his name on the report, and handed it to the excited Zhao Bohan for archiving.

Liang Ziyan quietly wiped away his tears, knowing that An Yi's order could not be changed, he took a deep breath and stepped forward: "Commander......"

"Say whatever you want."

An Yi turned around and looked at the beloved general in front of him.

Liang Ziyan couldn't say a word, and tears flowed down the handsome face of the twenty-six-year-old man.

An Yi shook his head, leaned over and wrote down a note, folded it and gently put it into the pocket of Liang Ziyan's chest:

"When you arrive in Syria, you will go to the Weapons Research Institute to find Director Kong, you need to do the battlefield tests of several new weapons, he will hand over the batch of equipment and various data and requirements to you, if you don't have enough manpower, you will go to Chief Li Fuqiang and An Jin to ask for a few, the brigade directly under the headquarters has been cooperating with Lao Kong and them to test new weapons, and with their people under your hands, it will be much smoother." Go ahead, at one o'clock at noon, my plane is going to send a few people from the Central Economic Commission to southern Sichuan for investigation, so you can take this plane and go, don't show this little girl and make the brothers laugh. ”

"Yes...... Commander, you ...... Take care! ”

Liang Ziyan solemnly saluted, pulled Zhao Bohan, who was extremely moved to see all this, turned around and left.

Entering the secretary's office next door, Liang Ziyan immediately explained all the precautions in detail. Zhao Bohan listened very attentively, humbly asked what he didn't understand, Liang Ziyan patiently explained, and told him An Yi's living habits and even the taste of the food one by one, and asked Zhao Bohan to write it down in his notebook before he could put his mind at ease.

Zhao Bohan's uncle is An Yi's senior brother Lu Yixuan, who is now the chief of staff of the 17th Army and the commander of the 17th Division of the Huangpu Division. Three and a half years ago, Lu Yixuan sent his nephew Zhao Zihan to An Yi's side, An Yi admired Zhao Zihan, who was only 20 years old at the time, and saw that Zhao Zihan had excellent physical fitness, good conduct, dignified appearance, and a solid cultural foundation, especially the one-handed calligraphy was quite famous and highly praised by the brothers, so he directly recommended Zhao Zihan and the fifteen outstanding students who graduated from his non-commissioned officer school to Zhang Zhizhong.

Zhao Zihan is also very competitive, no worse than fifteen non-commissioned officers and students who have received two years of formal military education, and finally ranked seventh, and fifteen non-commissioned officers and students were successfully admitted to the ninth phase of the Central Military Academy, and graduated from the Central Military Academy with excellent results last year, but he was unwilling to return to the north to follow his uncle Lu Yixuan, but joined the ranks of the An Family Army.

An Yi admired the down-to-earth nephew of his senior brother Lu Yixuan, although he had occasionally heard that Zhao Bohan had remarks that he had tendencies, and he often participated in demonstrations in Jinan colleges and universities in middle school, but An Yi regarded this as a manifestation of the patriotic enthusiasm in the heart of a hot-blooded young man, not to mention that Zhao Bohan, who was less than 20 years old at the time, was also the same as countless patriotic students, where is there any clear political consciousness?

Lu Yixuan also asked An Yi twice in the letter to ask An Yi to take his sister's only child, Lu Yixuan explained to An Yi in detail the character and experience of his nephew, and frankly said that if he was by his side, it would affect his strict education because he loved him, and he was not at ease when he handed it over to others. Again, Lu Yixuan did not hide the fanatical thoughts of his nephew when he was a student, and he didn't want his nephew to be reddened by the pervasive **, and he could only rest assured if he sent his nephew to the Anjia Army with the best military discipline and atmosphere. Lu Yixuan believes that as long as his nephew Zhao Bohan enters the An Jiajun, a melting pot where everything puts the interests of the country and the nation first and has his own ideological system, he will definitely be able to establish a correct outlook on life and morality.

An Yi also feels the same way, out of respect for his senior brother and his liking for the young Zhao Bohan, An Yi has the heart to cultivate this good seedling, hoping that every young officer around him can take charge of himself and become a pillar of talent to serve his family and country.