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Chapter 912: The Storm and the Storm (6)

Lushan Guling, the central government pavilion. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The spacious conference room, like almost all the conference rooms of the Kuomintang military and political institutions, hangs a portrait of the former premier directly above the rostrum, with the national flag and the party flag on both sides of the portrait, and the walls and pillars are decorated with intricately framed text panels with Mr. Zhongshan's famous words, and the whole environment looks solemn and solemn.

At the end of Deng Wenyi's report, the more than 10 party members and generals sitting on both sides of the long conference table were silent and worried; Chen Lifu, who was sitting at the head of Chiang Kai-shek's lower left, had just been on Lushan for less than an hour, and had not had the opportunity to report to Chiang Kai-shek the information on Nanjing and Shanghai, and he had participated in the meeting until now, and he was also helpless in the face of the rapid evolution of the confrontation situation at Nanchang Airport.

A group of civil and military officials were still silent, Yang Yongtai, the first think-tank sitting next to Chen Lifu, glanced at Cao Haosen, the military and political vice minister who was bowing his head and contemplating on the other side of the wide table, Ge Jingen, the deputy chief of staff who looked at him with a face like frost, and He Yaozu, the training director and acting military staff president, who looked up at the ceiling as if there was a beautiful landscape on it that was worth remembering for a long time, shook his head, and turned to Huang Shaohong, the minister of the interior, who rushed to Lushan at 9 a.m. to report the situation after successfully resolving the "Guangzhou crisis". I found him frowning, thinking about his thoughts with a sad expression.

Seeing that no one responded to his gaze, Yang Yongtai couldn't help but feel depressed and sighed secretly. At this moment, he already had a very bad premonition, if he could not quickly disperse the more and more people gathered around the airport and quickly end the embarrassing and increasingly bad military confrontation at Nanchang Airport, he would definitely become a scapegoat for a series of failed actions and be pushed out.

Chiang Kai-shek's face was pale, his eyes were cold, he sat on the throne with his chest and back straight, and he didn't say a word, but the worry and anger in his heart were like overturning the river and the sea.

Before the implementation of all the action plans, Chiang Kai-shek was able to repeatedly weigh the overall situation and make sure that he had a plan in his chest, but he did not expect that this time in the process of implementation, a series of problems would arise, and one after another seemingly strict plans were always frustrated one after another in the operation, and the report that the five planes did not see the rebellious naval police division ships and were driven back by the advanced fighters of the An Jiajun was doubled, which had already made Chiang Kai-shek furious.

Chiang Kai-shek announced the start of the meeting, and within 10 minutes of sitting down, the news of the failure of the disarming operation at Nanchang Airport came one after another, so this important meeting, which needed to solve many problems, immediately became a special meeting to resolve the crisis.

At this moment, Chiang Kai-shek's anger was piling up again, but more importantly, he was extremely disappointed with the lack of competence and professionalism of the military officials under his command. The Nanchang garrison, one of the elite troops that he had always regarded as loyal and worthy of heavy use, and the officials of the political department and the military police headquarters of the Nanchang camp, who had full authority to command the operation, were so incompetent, that Chiang Kai-shek, who had considered everything, did not fully consider this in advance, nor did he expect that the garrison of a regiment in the Anjia Military Region would be so arrogant and dare to ignore the orders of the Military Commission and himself, the chairman of the committee, and what he did not expect was that An Yi, who was thousands of miles away, not only made a tough military response, He also quickly stretched out his hand to Nanchang, where the Anjia Army had extremely deep roots, and insidiously and viciously and without any scruples, provoked a small military punishment action personally ordered by himself into a military and civilian turmoil that affected the entire Nanchang area, and even more viciously kneaded this crisis into the fuse of a political crisis that affected the whole country.

Chiang Kai-shek was in an extremely disturbed mood, and he realized again that he still despised An Yi's political wisdom and the more and more talented people gathered around An Yi, who had always had an outstanding talent in military affairs and a clear love-hate and indomitable style of action in the war, which skillfully concealed his political ability and gradually expanding ambitions, so that all the failed actions against An Yi and his clique now added up, and did not have An Yi's political "grandeur", which made Chiang Kai-shek worried, I was also extremely angry and remorseful.

Chiang Kai-shek even blamed himself bitterly, and the biggest reason why An Yi was so full of wings and fearless today was that he had been permissive and negligent.

Therefore, at this moment, Chiang Kai-shek did not scold anyone's mother, nor did he have any bad feelings towards Yang Yongtai, who was calm on the outside but fearless on the inside-although Yang Yongtai, who was loyal and full of strategy, said that there were mistakes and his own selfishness, but in the treatment of An Yi and his group, Yang Yongtai was the only one among all who had a sense of foresight and crisis.

The messy and hurried footsteps broke the awkward and oppressive silence, and the communications staff officer of the chamberlain's room, who was forced to be calm, walked lightly behind Deng Wenyi at the end of the long table, silently handed over a telegram, and then quietly glanced at Chairman Jiang with a blank face, and turned to leave.

Deng Wenyi frowned, straightened out the upside-down message, and saw that the caller turned out to be Chen Cheng, who was still stranded in Syria, and immediately realized the importance of this message.

In less than ten seconds, Deng Wenyi's face changed greatly, grabbed the telegram, Huo Ran stood up - when he stood up, he knocked over the wooden chair behind him with a "bang", and he didn't care about it, he almost trotted behind Chiang Kai-shek, and trembled when he handed over the telegram with both hands.

The civilians and soldiers were taken aback by this situation, looked at each other, and then all eyes focused on Chiang Kai-shek's hand as he took the telegram.

Chiang Kai-shek was a little dissatisfied with Deng Wenyi's gaffe, but when he saw his eyes full of worry and even fear, his heart moved, and he quickly took the telegram and read it carefully.

After reading a few words, Chiang Kai-shek's body trembled, his face turned pale, and it took a while to control it. He read it carefully over and over again, and finally slowly folded the message neatly, put it in his jacket pocket, glanced around at the conference table with a look of anticipation on his face, slowly stood up, announced a temporary adjournment for half an hour, and turned around to leave the conference room after speaking, leaving a group of civil and military officials who looked at each other and were apprehensive.

Song Meiling was reading a book on the sofa in the bedroom on the second floor, and a loud noise came from the study downstairs, which frightened the book in her hand to fall. Song Meiling didn't care about picking up the book, quickly stood up and walked downstairs, crossed the door of the study and stood with her panicked attendant room, ran into the study to take a look, and was so frightened that she hurriedly stepped forward to hug the angry Chiang Kai-shek, and with all her strength, she pushed Chiang Kai-shek onto the sofa, and comforted her and asked the reason.

After a long time, Chiang Kai-shek's gaze was withdrawn from the kicked down table and the pen and ink documents scattered all over the ground, staring painfully at Song Meiling's tearful eyes, the corners of his mouth twitched a few times, and slowly took out Chen Cheng's telegram and handed it to his beloved wife:

"Darling, you take a look first, after reading it, you fly to Shanghai and leave immediately."

Three minutes later, Soong Meiling sat beside Chiang Kai-shek in a daze, unable to say a word.

Chiang Kai-shek took back the telegram from her drooping hand, folded it again, and put it in his jacket pocket: "Darling, the major chaebols in Shanghai's industrial and commercial circles are all shareholders of the enterprises under the Jiangnan Group, and the relationship with An Yi is purely a relationship of interests. So no matter what, if you have to work hard, I will call Mr. Jing, Mr. Feng and Mr. Du later, and beg them to help me with this, if I can't stop Zhou Chongan from holding a press conference in time, the consequences will be unimaginable. ”

Song Meiling, who came back to her senses, turned pale, and sad tears flowed again: "How can An Yi be like this...... How could he be so despicable and do so much...... He wasn't like that......"

Chiang Kai-shek hugged his painful wife tightly, his nose was sore, he quickly raised his head, took a deep breath and slowly exhaled, lowered his head, and gently supported Song Meiling's trembling shoulders:

"Since An Yi allowed Ci Xiu to send back this telegram, it shows that he is not doing things absolutely absolutely, but is warning and threatening me, and it is a firm and resolute ultimatum that has never been done. This trick is vicious, and it hits my weakest link at once, and it is more terrible than him commanding thousands of troops to level one or two provinces.

"If I hadn't compromised with him, he would have done it, and there would have been a very bad way that I could not have imagined right now. He did not hesitate to harm his own huge interests, and his purpose was to force me to back down, which fully shows that he has already seen that I will choose to back down, and I have no choice but to back down, otherwise the entire Nanchang area will be in chaos, the national economy that has just stopped its decline will collapse, demonstrations will soon sweep the whole country, and Hu Hanmin, Li Zongren, Chen Jitang, Feng Huanzhang, Yan Xishan, and other careerists and warlords of all walks of life who see the wind and steer will gather under the coalition government advocated by Feng Huanzhang and Hu Hanmin. After overthrowing me, I will once again divide up the interests of the party, government, military, industry, academia and business fields of the whole country, my army will fall into confusion, be surrounded by enemies on all sides, and the dying and struggling ** Red Army in the encirclement of hundreds of thousands of troops will be desperate to survive, and at that point, you can only go back to Fenghua's hometown with me to live a hard life, as for whether the whole country will fall into a protracted civil war again, whether it will be controlled by the ** red regime, and whether it will again attract the joint aggression of Europe, the United States and Japan, it has nothing to do with us. ”

"I'll go! I'll go right away! ”

Song Meiling wiped away her tears, stood up with a resolute face, and gently buttoned the button that popped up on Chiang Kai-shek's chest: "Darling, promise me, don't be angry like this again!" It's nothing to take a step back, since An Yi is willing to let Ci Xiu convey his plan, which proves that he is also unwilling to do things to the end, at least he still remembers the old feelings, there is no need for us to erect such a strong enemy at this time. ”

Chiang Kai-shek shook his head and smiled bitterly: "That's it, that's it...... I agreed, and after a while, I ordered the garrison to collect troops and return to the camp, and I also sent a special plane to send He Yaozu and Huang Shaohong to An Yi, who had a close friendship with An Yi. Then I sent another telegram to Zhu Peide to appease and encourage, he is a shrewd man, and he is also a veteran of the party-state who is a hero of the Northern Expedition, and knows how to do it. We are working together in a multi-pronged manner to bring the crisis to a halt in the shortest possible time. ”

Song Meiling nodded with satisfaction, and then asked, "Do you need to send a telegram to Ziwen who is visiting France?" In many ways, he and An Yi have similar ideas, and their relationship with each other is much deeper than that of the outside world, and he can definitely influence An Yi's decision-making. ”

"Well, it's up to you to send this telegram...... In fact, in addition to appeasing the chaebols of Jiangsu and Zhejiang and the industrial and commercial circles, other means are redundant, An Yi is very smart, and he is also very cunning, as long as he sees me retreating, he will borrow the slope to get off the donkey, and even make a cheap profit and sell well, alas! Do you think he doesn't feel sorry for his huge industry and connections in the Nanchang area? I used to ignore his political abilities too much......"

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11:20 a.m., Nanchang Military Airport.

With the sound of the assembly whistle, the officers and men of the garrison were relieved, all put away their weapons, gathered in divisions, and the heavy encirclement of the garrison regiment of the Anjia Army for a whole morning came to an end.

Tens of thousands of people who were agitated when they heard the far-fetched explanation on the loudspeaker and the news of the immediate announcement of the withdrawal of troops, immediately erupted into deafening cheers, and they were very satisfied to see that their beloved Anjia Army had turned from a dangerous situation to a safe place, and they all moved out of the way according to the requirements of the garrison headquarters, and booed and cursed the convoy that was speeding away and the Central Army and military police who were running away.

In the black Ford sedan parked inside the airport gate, Gendarmerie Commander Huang Zhen had not come out since he got in, and more than a dozen tall military policemen surrounded the car, nervously watching around.

The crowd slowly retreated, dodging a road, and Huang Zhen hurriedly ordered the driver to follow behind a dozen troop carriers of the gendarmerie and return to Nanchang.

The reason why Huang Zhen was so cautious was because after he withdrew from the guard tower in the southwest, he found at least three snipers who were very well hidden.

It's not that they are as cowardly as rats, but the iron blood and madness of the officers and soldiers of the An family, which has spread for a long time, and none of them dares to guarantee that the five or six thousand confronting troops will not go off because of nervousness or due to the impact of more and more people, only one thing they can be sure of is that as long as a gunshot goes out, the madmen of the An family army will take action, and it is better to be careful and vigilant themselves than to become a gun ghost unjustly.

Otherwise, even if the officers and soldiers of the An family who killed people after the matter calmed down, they would be punished at most, but the lives of the officers and soldiers of the lieutenant colonel and regimental commander would be far less precious than the lives of prominent generals and party officials......