readx; In the vast Pacific Ocean, the Starfish was heading towards the far west at a constant speed of sixteen knots, leaving a white trail on the surface of the sea, stretching from the stern to the distant horizon, far, far away. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

On the first-class deck, a girl in a white gauze skirt was half-lying on a long hardwood sofa, with a copy of Henry Bergson's life and consciousness in her hand, but she didn't look at it, but just put the book on her stomach, and then covered the cover of the book with her hands on it, just half-lying with her eyes slightly closed, and the sunset sun shone obliquely on her face, shining with a faint golden glow.

It's just that I don't know when, the sunset seems to be gone, and the girl seems to feel it, so she gently opened an eye, not completely, just revealing a small gap, and through the gap, the girl saw a figure blocking between herself and the sun.

"Mom!" Lena opened her eyes again, only to find that it was her mother, the Countess, and immediately tried to get up, but her movements were so loud that she dropped the books in her arms to the ground.

The Countess frowned slightly: "How can you run to the deck to take a nap!" ”

Lina didn't explain, and said directly: "Mom! He dragged on a long note and hugged the Countess's arm.

"Come back to my room with me! Change your clothes again, and then it's time for the captain's dinner, don't look like this then! The Countess did not show an angry expression, but shook her head and smiled bitterly, and then took her hand and walked inside.

Lina struggled slightly: "The book is still on the ground!" ”

Then he bent briskly, picked up the book on the floor, and followed the countess back.

In the evening, as usual, it was a dinner invited by the captain, and there were not many people who came, but they were all first-class passengers, and they were all foreigners, and even the two first-class passengers were not invited. There were merchants, officials, and aristocratic people such as countesses, mothers and daughters.

The dinner was quite boring for Lina, who was just eating her own dinner, and beside her was a handsome young man with blond hair, who seemed to be extremely talkative, but the crowd at the table was laughing and laughing, and caused everyone to laugh several times.

This young man is the second son of a wealthy American man named William, who fell in love with Lina at first sight at a ball in New York, first under the pretext of running to Los Angeles to see her, and then followed Lina on this cruise ship to the Far East, on the way naturally he was very attentive to Linna, and Linna's mother, the Countess, was extremely satisfied with this William, although the family background was a little worse, I heard that my great-grandfather was just an authentic farmer, and my grandfather was just a small lawyer, knowing that his father became a rich man in one fell swoop, and aristocracy, it is not a family inheritance, and it can be regarded as a standard outbreak rich family in the American high society. However, William, a young man, looks handsome and handsome, and his eloquence is very good to please the elders, and of course, more importantly, this William is really rich......

The Countess was satisfied, but Lina had never had a good impression of the handsome young man, but her mother asked him to come along, and even though she was psychologically unwilling, she had no reason to refute it.

If she had known a young man like William before she met Chen Jingyun, maybe she would have a good impression of him, but after knowing Chen Jingyun, this girl's mind may not know what is going on, but she has already remembered that face in her mind, and even she often recalls the scene of the two on Christmas Eve, and she can even clearly remember every word Chen Jingyun said at that time.

Although many times she couldn't figure out the situation in China that Chen Jingyun said in his letter, and even now she didn't know who Sun Wen was in Chen Jingyun's pen, but it did not affect her perception of Chen Jingyun, even in the United States, she could occasionally see information about Chen Jingyun in the newspaper, and the newspaper even published a photo of Chen Jingyun standing sideways in a military uniform and holding a command knife.

Although China means nothing to her, and she doesn't care what Chen Jingyun's Chinese revival is, what she knows is that Chen Jingyun is doing a big thing, and he is trying to lead a country to prosperity and strength.

In fact, these are also meaningless to her, she sometimes wants Chen Jingyun to write some trivial things in the letter, prefers him to tell her what he feels after reading, and is more willing to listen to him say the bits and pieces of life.

It's just that Chen Jingyun's life is entangled with military affairs, and for Chen Jingyun, commanding wars, diplomatic negotiations, and handling government affairs is his usual life, so that the letters between the two will be more or less mixed with some military and political affairs such as views on the current situation.

It's a wonderful thing to miss him, and the name comes to mind a lot, and so on, and then you find that missing him becomes a habit, and you will compare it to other people when you meet him.

Obviously, comparing William and Chen Jingyun, Linna feels that this William is no different from a little white face, but she sometimes forgets that Chen Jingyun is really the only person on the earth who can become the commander of an army of hundreds of thousands at the age of twenty-four or five, and is about to rule a country with a population of hundreds of millions.

I'm about to get to Shanghai, I don't know if I can see him, I heard that he lives in Nanjing now, and now he is not in Shanghai, if he can't come to Shanghai, do you want to go to Nanjing to find him, but if you go to him rashly, will you be ridiculed, he is a married person.

Lina thought of this, and then naturally remembered the fact that Chen Jingyun was married, and that moment made her panic, just at this time William was sitting down with a smile and talking to her, and she was even more depressed when she saw it, and then finally finished dinner time and left the restaurant quickly to go back to the room, which made the countess smile bitterly.

Although Lena didn't say anything, how could a shrewd person like the Countess not see that his woman didn't have a good impression of William, but a good feeling can be cultivated, and if you can get married, you will have a lifetime to slowly cultivate your feelings.

"I know that this little girl is in love with that Chen Jingyun!" The Countess had seen that her daughter seemed to be in love with Chen Jingyun as early as last year when she was in Shanghai, not to mention his skin color and race, just because he was married could already determine that it was impossible for two people. If Chen Jingyun can get a divorce, it would be good to marry her daughter to a Chinese ruler, but she is not stupid, and she must know that a politician like Chen Jingyun will never abandon his wife to take a foreign woman.

Foreigners like the Countess know that if Chen Jingyun really marries Lina as his wife, it will be a serious blow to his political life, which is as ridiculous as the English king marries a black or yellow person as a princess, and then accepts the worship of hundreds of millions of subjects of the British Empire with the British king.

So from a practical point of view, it is impossible for Linna and the Chinese man of the year Chen Jingyun to get married, at most they will become mistresses, which is unacceptable to the countess.

Sensing that something was wrong, she quickly took her daughter to the United States, but it has been more than half a year since she arrived in the United States, but she has not found a good son-in-law candidate, and finally there is a William who can take a look, but Lina still has no good impression of him.

Originally, she planned to go back from New York directly from the Atlantic Ocean this time to London, but Lena insisted on going back from the Pacific Ocean, saying that she was going to visit her uncle in India after passing through Shanghai.

It's just that this time she went to Shanghai, not to encourage Linna to like Chen Jingyun, but to let her know that that man does not belong to him, he belongs to his country and people.

After she dies, she will marry William honestly, otherwise why would she invite William to come with her, when Lina is sad and disappointed, it is a good time for William to appear.

Chen Jingyun, who was far away in Nanjing, didn't know that Linna was already in the Pacific Ocean, let alone the countess's thoughts, and he was still worried about the domestic war.

Since the Nationalist Army conquered Hefei, the situation on the entire Jinpu Line has become extremely favorable to the Nationalist Army, and the main forces of the Second Army and the First Army of the Nationalist Army are converging towards Chuzhou, preparing to conquer this important stronghold on the Jinpu Line and completely cut off the retreat of Feng Guozhang's Second Army in the Jiangbei area. On the other hand, the Third Army also continued to move north in southern Jiangsu, the 18th Mixed Brigade has conquered Yancheng and is continuing to move north, the main force of the Third Division has been engaged in Huai'an and Zhang Xun's Eighth Division, and the connection has been victorious, Zhang Xun's Eighth Division has only one brigade strength, and it has also divided troops to garrison Yancheng and other places before, and there are only more than 3,000 people left in Huai'an, in the face of Xu Lishan's main force of the Third Division of the National Army, he has no intention of resisting at all, and has the intention of fighting and retreating while waiting for the reinforcement of the 19th Brigade of the 20th Division.

On October 12, the 17th Mixed Brigade of the National Army officially joined the operational sequence of the First Army, reinforced the 4th Division to participate in the offensive operation against the enemy, and the 16th Mixed Brigade also arrived at the flank of the 1st Division and served as a reserve.

After the strength of the First Army of the Nationalist Army in the north of the Yangtze River was reinforced by these two brigades, its strength increased greatly and it quickly launched a large-scale attack on the enemy's Second Beiyang Mixed Brigade and the Tenth Division of the Beiyang Army. Tang Tianxi's 10th Division in the Wugang area in the north was also not having a good time, and in the face of the superiority of the strength of the two divisions and two brigades of the First Army of the National Army, Rao is Tang Tianxi's 10th Division had to take the lead and turned into a defensive state.

The Battle of Chuzhou has been officially declared a large-scale outbreak!