Thirty-two carriages, each carrying a coffin, except for two guide cars and one trailing vehicle, each carried a coffin, and in addition to the two drivers, each of them had eight soldiers carrying coffins, sitting on either side of the black and red coffins.

The carriage convoy left the airport and parted on the main road.

More than a dozen horse-drawn carriages rushed to the cemeteries in various places. In each county, the vanguard army built a martyr's cemetery. When the soldiers went to the front, they had already given an explanation. The vast majority of them choose to return to their roots and return their bones to their hometowns. Their remains will be sent to the cemetery in their county town for future generations to remember.

The landing point of the plane was arranged according to the main concentration of the soldiers on board, and at the same time, three other identical planes landed at Nanyuan Airport in Beiping, and the same scene was staged.

The eight-horse carriage pulls these with ease. Each horse is a captured devil's horse, even if it is difficult to get together a pure white war horse, some war horses are black, red, yellow and other colors. However, Meng Xiang still vetoed the suggestion that some people should select pure white horses from Suiyuan, Chahar and other places. The horses captured from the devils further highlight the achievements of the vanguard soldiers.

A standard division has more than 8,000 horses, even a standard field artillery wing has 2,900 horses, and there are more than 3,000 baggage troops. The vanguard army has successively captured fifty or sixty thousand horses from the devils. If you add the horses seized by the devil's horse farm, there are more than 100,000 horses.

After careful selection, it was not very difficult to get the same coat color for the eight horses in the carriage. I have been introducing Arabian stallions and optimizing the breed of horses for many years. In order to keep the bloodline from degrading, the ponies were killed almost everywhere except in the northern region. Therefore, the Oriental horses of later generations, the appearance of high-headed horses is also good.

Some of the other horses were kept by the vanguard army for military transportation, while others were sold to the common people at low prices, and with the development of the economy, the volume of transportation increased dramatically. Cars were concentrated in the vanguard army in large numbers, and the countryside was still a rarity, and horses were still high-end goods, which were better than donkeys and mules.

At this time, Xiang Bangyu was feeding his family's only yellow horse. This was purchased with a low-interest small loan from the Taiping Bank, which saved the exploitation of the usury of the rich man Liu in the village. Since the implementation of the subsistence allowance, there is no need to pay any taxes, and the eight acres of land at home have enough food for one or five families to eat in the autumn.

It's just that his wife is sick and owes a lot of loan sharks, and the donkey rolls more and more. If it weren't for the small low-interest loan launched by Taiping Bank, I am afraid that even the family's land would have to be sold to pay off the debt.

Loan sharking in China is an old business. This kind of financial method is different from ordinary bank loans, which has exceeded the average line of profit income, and has become a cancer that hinders social economy and disrupts social stability. When a large amount of idle funds cannot be vented, and there is no reasonable profit margin to nourish, such a situation will naturally occur in the blind obsession of profit and wisdom.

In later generations, Meng Xiang had usury around him to force people to death, and he naturally paid attention to it. The usury situation in this era is more serious than Meng Xiang imagined, and the intricate relationship from top to bottom behind it cannot be sorted out at once. In this era, many people no longer count on rent, and if land is not the basic element of survival, the interests involved in it are far less complex than those of usury. And financial capital has already shown its bloody fangs from the very beginning.

It is impossible to expect them to suddenly find out in conscience, and Meng Xiangyi announced that the annual interest rate shall not exceed 20% according to the central government's political axe, and the interest rate will be reduced. In case of disobedience, no more than 30% will be subject to financial penalties, and more than 30% will be directly punished criminally. Because capital also needs a space for activity, 30% profit margins often appear in later generations are already large enough, and no more is no longer a normal economic behavior.

The law of the vanguard army, which has been enforced for half a year, is absolutely not a joke, and it is known for its strict non-favoritism. Those clones don't have the personal debt of seven aunts and eight aunts.

In addition, Meng Xiang also directly retaliated with a financial stick. In addition to industrial and commercial loans to enterprises, banks also provide small low-interest loans of no more than 5% to individuals, which directly liberate many people from the shadow of usury. The improvement of personal identity also made Meng Xiang start to establish a personal credit file. It should be said that the vast majority of people are honest and have good credit. Moreover, with the support of the subsistence allowance, ordinary people will not delay.

Those who do not repay the money will not only be punished from all sides, but even the subsistence allowance will be reduced to the lowest level after the warning period is invalidated.

With the help of the literacy team in the countryside, Xiang Bangyu applied for a small, low-interest loan from the savings office of the Taiping Bank in the township, and paid off the loan shark that was reduced to 30 percent. Although it has exceeded the part, some of the squires have a lot of power, and ordinary people will not be easily offended. There are no people to complain and testify, and this is difficult to determine.

But even the rich man Liu did not dare to raise the loan shark above 30%, because there were not a few people who were arrested. With the low-interest loans of Taiping Bank, it is becoming more and more difficult for loan sharks to do. Rich man Liu was already thinking about going to the newly opened stock exchange in Tianjin to have a look and buy some listed stocks, and he heard that the price has risen very rapidly recently, and he has made more money than usury.

After Xiang Bangyu paid off the loan shark, the rest of the money bought this yellow horse. When he was in the Northeast Army, he rode a horse. The yellow horse he chose did not look good, but it was a good animal to pull and deliver things.

Meng Xiang also had an interest in horse farming for a while, after all, there were few tractors and the number of ploughing cattle was also lacking. But it turns out that although the horses are faster, the horses are more squeamish, and they are not as easy to feed as the old cattle. Moreover, there are many people in China and little land, and the block of land is not conducive to the play of horse farming, and the strip land needed for horse ploughing is inseparable from centralization and farming. And once concentrated and farmed, it is not as good as the tractor that the base is transformed.

In this way, horse farming is a bit chicken, and the personnel also need to re-adapt to the work, Meng Xiang found someone to experiment a few times, and then gave up. After that, it was the era of mechanization, and horse farming was outdated.

Xiang Bangyu only used horses to pull carts, and said that there were many carriages captured in his transport team, and the vanguard army couldn't use them, so they were also sold together. Xiang Bangyu got such a second-hand carriage.

In the first month, there are many relatives and friends, and Xiang Bangyu's carriage is particularly popular. Today, he is taking the six members of Liu Laoshi's family in the village to the city.

After the war in Xuzhou, the damage was more serious. But at this time, new buildings were being built everywhere. It's just that because of the cold weather and the suspension of work during the Chinese New Year, some buildings under construction are in a state of suspension. Like the cities of Beiping, the cities on the territory of the Pioneer Army were carefully planned according to local conditions and local cultural customs. Among them, there are not only the facilities and social development needs of later generations that Meng Xiang considered, but also the ancient Chinese culture.

Xuzhou is such a new city. Although Xuzhou has not yet shown a new look because of the short time, the big city has returned to its former hustle and bustle. The war on the southern front was far outside Xuzhou, basically near Huaibei, and the attack of the devils had not been affected. At this time, even outside Xuzhou City is filled with the atmosphere of the New Year, and people come and go.

Suddenly, a shrill siren sounded, and two two-wheeled BMW R12 police motorcycles cleared the way, reminding people to give way. This has never happened before, even when Meng Xiang went to Xuzhou, he did not sound the horn to open the way. Vehicles of officials and guests generally move with the flow of traffic and people. But at this time, it was the whistle that opened the way, which can only be treated as a state guest.

At this time, Ye Pinggong, who was familiar with this rule, looked at the two motorcycle policemen with some surprise, as a citizen representative, he couldn't sit idly by.

"I have never heard of state guests coming, these police officers abuse their power and waste taxpayers' money, I have to sue them." Ye Pinggong said indignantly. But when he saw the three carriages behind him, his anger disappeared at once.

He knew that it was a transport vehicle for the remains of the Vanguard servicemen. A few days ago, there were similar incidents in Qidu and Qingdao. When there are many people on the road, sometimes, the police will consciously help maintain it.

After word of mouth, the people consciously let the way of the way.

Under the silent annotations of many complicated eyes, four carriages slowly drove in the middle of the road. There was no mourning and no noise along the way. The black-and-red coffin condensed the surrounding atmosphere like a boulder, and only the special bell under the neck of the horse pulling the cart rang a special sound. As long as you have heard this special voice, you will know that it is the hearse of the vanguard army soldiers in the future.

Xiang Bangyu's carriage also avoided the side. At first, he thought that some big man sounded the gong to open the way, until the hearse team drove out of everyone's field of vision unhurriedly, and under the discussion of everyone, he knew that this was the hearse of an ordinary soldier of the vanguard army.

"Manly man, that's how it should be!" He thought of the scene that had just been in the spotlight with envy, and couldn't help but stir in his heart.

"Why don't I join the army again?" The thought came to his mind at once. With the house arrest of Zhang Shaomarshal that year, there was civil strife in the Northeast Army, and he ran back to his hometown when he was tired of being a soldier. Now his heart has already cooled a lot, and he has to get by. Even if he was like Rich Liu, he could bully him once or twice, and he didn't bother to pay attention to it. If it weren't for the hearse of the vanguard soldiers today, I am afraid that he would continue to sink.

"You should give it a try. In any case, it is reasonable to fight devils, and it is worth it to enjoy the treatment of a general once when you die! A voice in his heart kept urging him.

On the other road, more than a dozen carriages went straight to the cemetery storage place in Xuzhou.

The coffins of some of the soldiers who were outside the territory controlled by the Vanguard Army were to be stored there for the time being, waiting for the right opportunity to transport their coffins to their hometowns.

It is good to say that the vanguard army personnel operating in various localities have already purchased cemeteries in various places and can be transported there directly. But in those places where the fallen areas are, the coffins of the vanguard army cannot be sent directly and swaggeringly like this. Meng Xiang didn't want his soldiers to be wronged, so he could only temporarily store the soldiers' coffins first and bring the soldiers' families to the memorial service.

"Within three years, I will definitely let you return to your hometown openly!" Meng Xiang solemnly promised at the cemetery storage place in Qidu.

Although many people don't believe it, it is acceptable to stop the coffin for three years. Moreover, these expenses and arrangements are the responsibility of the special agency of the vanguard army, and there is no need for the martyrs to spend a penny.

Meng Xiang didn't say it for no reason. Whether it is Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Guangzhou and other places that have been occupied for more than a year, or the Northeast that has long been colonized, Meng Xiang has already conceived a plan for the whole game of chess in his heart. A series of written plans, carefully planned by the clone staff, have begun to be counted in tons. Fighting a war is not a decision made by patting one's head, with Meng Xiang's historical golden finger, some things can be planned in advance. Both domestic, and foreign. Whether it is military, economic, scientific.

However, the road has to be walked step by step, and the meal has to be eaten in one bite.

Now he is just squeezing his own looting space step by step in the country, and constantly digesting and absorbing the territory he occupies, and then accumulating the foundation for the future war.

"Attack the Central Plains and the Lianghuai region." Meng Xiang had already made a decision. The pace needs to be picked up. The vanguard army also had the strength to sit in the Central Plains at this time. As for the Northeast, let me confront Soviet Russia for a while. Meng Xiang just took into account that he had to fight not only against the little devils, but also against the ambitions of the Soviet Russians, and the strength of the vanguard army was still somewhat insufficient.

With the infiltration of various guerrillas in the northeast region and the construction of base areas, it is time to lay the foundation for the next move. I hope that I will build more in the Northeast, and you must know that I am still contributing to the industrial construction of the Northeast, and it is not yet the harvest season.

With the strategic deployment, the army within the vanguard army began to move again. Recruits are trained more rigorously.

Since the introduction of the hearse of the military, the number of recruits has increased dramatically. Not only did they come from the war zone, but they also came from other places.

Although Meng Xiang doesn't like the hearse to rely on this period for show, a certain amount of publicity is still necessary.

Li Zizhong led Shen Yuelian with a happy face, and walked along Zou Rong Road in Yucheng.

After some national universities moved to Yucheng, some schools merged and united, and at this time Li Zizhong and Shen Yuelian met. The smoke of the beacon fire and the bad situation of the war can't stop the sprout of love in the hearts of young people. The two have come all the way from Nanjing, and the feelings of adversity have burst out with sparks of love. Today, Shen Yuelian finally let go of the shackles of her family and agreed to be Li Zizhong's lover.

The two walked hand in hand on Zou Rong Road, and there was no air defense siren in the sky for a long time. Since the planes of the vanguard army were stationed in Wuhan, his bombers no longer dared to run to Yucheng easily. Before, the fighters of the Vanguard Army had no place to stay, and the only thing Meng Xiang could do was to use the convenience of radar to provide a little warning in advance, or sell more anti-aircraft artillery.

It wasn't until Lao Jiang let go of Wuhan that the planes of the vanguard army had a relay location, and the scope of the attack was suddenly expanded. After shooting down twelve bombers of the devil in a row, he said that his own bombers were honest. Even if there were fighter escorts, they were bombed down by the planes of the Vanguard Army, and even the escort fighters themselves could not be protected.

In this way, the bombing of Yucheng to pressure Lao Chiang to retreat and even surrender was temporarily stopped, and they could not even break through Wuhan now.

"What's that movie on that new sign?" The two walked to the door of the Cathay Pacific Cinema and checked the movie pictorial, only to see a sign for the new film.

"Hehe, take a look. Absolute value, lad! "The fat uncle who watched the doorman has been happy, but he didn't say what kind of film it was.

"Let's go, let's go in and have a look?" They're going to want to see a movie today anyway.

There are quite a few people in the cinema today, and the crisis in Wuhan has been eased in the past few days, and I heard that the people of the Vanguard Army have also arrived there. Although they only had one division, under the attack of their planes, the superiority of their aircraft, naval guns and artillery was no longer very obvious, and they only relied on ground forces to attack, and the Central Army still had 200,000 men on the eastern front. The two sides have again become a confrontation there.

However, the air in Chongqing has eased a lot, and it can be seen that the number of people who come out to shop has increased today.

In the cinema screening room, hundreds of people sat and whispered softly, hearing a commotion in their ears.

But soon after, a war drum came out of the stereo, and the sound was very realistic, without the distorted sound of the movies of previous years.

The continuous beating of war drums seemed to shake out the human heart, and the continuous drum beat completely cleared the noise in the movie theater. By the time attention was drawn to the pitch-black screen, the drums died out with a flaming red flame. Below, the camera turns, and it's a blue sky.

Color movies are still a novelty. The world's first color film was "Flashy World" shot in the United States in 35, and the first color film in China was "Life and Death Hate" in 48. The base is manufactured with advanced photography technology 45 years ago, the camera itself is used for actual combat teaching and other aspects, and there are even spy photography equipment, and even more perverted is the powerful direct recording function of the main base. Color films to base production said, are very simple.

"Wow!" There was a commotion in the cinema, but it was overwhelmed by the sound of neat steps from the horns.

A group of dignified vanguard soldiers in military uniforms appear in the camera. Meng Xiang has modified the military uniforms of the Germans in combination with the military uniforms in Starfleet in later movies and some American and Soviet military uniforms after the war, forming the appearance of military dresses that appear in movies now.

The main color is still army gray, but the black and red collocation of the cuff neckline is quite different from the German military uniform, and the unique accessory logo of the pioneer army can no longer see the appearance of the original copycat German military uniform. With the expansion of territory, the military's military uniform business can also drive economic development. It only needs to be modified in the military uniform of the Germans, and it is not too wasteful of manpower and material resources.

"What a majestic uniform!" Li Zizhong couldn't help but sigh that he studied art, so he naturally paid attention to some of the characteristics of this military uniform. He didn't know that there were more than a dozen masters of art who had modified it, and it was more perfect than the design of the mustache alone.

After the neat pace captured people's attention, the whistling of airplanes echoed through the screening room. Until the plane fell, a black and red coffin was carried out, and the solemn expressions of the eight vanguard soldiers who were also wearing military uniforms appeared in front of them. Then that series of ceremonies of the vanguard appeared in front of the camera.

Eight carriages pulled by white horses, a long send-off procession, the sound is all played originally, there is no noise, only solemn silence.

When the carriage was pulled to the cemetery, the solemn funeral procession shot from the air. Although the solemn atmosphere made the air in the screening hall a little oppressive, curious people continued to watch. Everyone has already seen that this is a military funeral for the Vanguard Army.

When the neat procession shot in front of the monument after the burial, the setting sun shone obliquely, dragging the shadow of the tombstone. At this time, the camera kept changing, the tragedy of the battlefield, the charge and sacrifice of the soldiers, and a passionate background music sounded. violent, but there seems to be a kind of confusion and longing in the gloom.

"What kind of music is this?" Shen Yuelian, who was studying music, frowned, she had never heard this kind of music, but Li Zizhong next to her was sparkling in her eyes as the music sounded.

"The style is unique." Shen Yuelian naturally didn't know that this song had a special name in later generations - "Overture to the Dead".