In order to get Shaanxi Zhang Zuolin secretly instructed his subordinates to kill Chen Shufan, thus offending the Anhui family. This Chen Shufan has another identity in addition to the Shaanxi overseer, that is, Duan Qirui's student, Duan Qirui heard that Chen Shufan was shot by Zhang Zuolin's men, and he was so angry that his nose was crooked, (Duan Qirui's face was sick, muscle spasms and his nose was crooked) Since then, the cooperative relationship with the Anhui system has broken down, and the two sides have completely parted ways.

Before Zhang Zuolin could gain a foothold in Shaanxi, Shaanxi Jing ** came back from Shanxi, and it turned out that the Kuomintang sent Yu Youren to enter Jing **, and Yu Youren found Jing ** commander Guo Jian with military pay and weapons, which strengthened Jing's strength. In order to prevent Jing ** from entering Shanxi to compete for territory, Yan Xishan, the overseer of Shanxi, sent his general Xu Yongchang to lead two brigades of the Jin army to encircle and intercept Jing **, and mobilized the people of Shanxi to drive away the Shaanxi army, and finally forced the guest army Jing ** to make a decision to leave Shanxi and return to Shaanxi.

Zhang Zuolin dispersed the Zhensong Army and supplemented the town, and organized the Shaanxi Army into a 13th mixed brigade, appointed Zhang Baolin, the general of the Shaanxi Army, as the brigade commander, collected the troops from all over the country to form the 14th mixed brigade, and appointed Liu Shilong as the brigade commander. As a result, Zhang Zuolin stationed ten mixed brigades in Shaanxi with an army of nearly 80,000 troops.

Zhang Zuolin's town ** was a town ** because of the hard fighting for several months, and the veterans suffered many casualties, so they replenished some new soldiers from Shaanxi. Many poor people in Shaanxi had no choice but to become soldiers, so they had a good supply of soldiers and volunteered to be soldiers, so it was very easy for Zhang Zuolin to expand his army. In the south, they are all soldiers, and because they are rich, they are unwilling to be soldiers.

But Zhang Zuolin is short of money. Military salaries can be paid less. But the ordnance was indispensable, so Zhang Zuolin hurriedly asked the Northeast Frontier Army for help. and sent a telegram to Wang Maoru, who was far away in Europe, hoping to get the assistance of the Northeast Frontier Army. But I learned the news that Wang Maoru was going back to China.

Zhang Zuolin and his subordinates looked at each other, this Wang Maoru led the army in Europe and played the prestige of the best people, everyone admired it deeply, and thought that he would continue to command the army in Europe, but he didn't expect to return to China? Why is that?

There are two reasons for Wang Maoru's return to China, the first point is that Europe is about to end the war, and Wang Maoru frequently participates in cocktail parties in Europe. When he was trying to win over the political leaders of various European countries to earn political speculation, he learned from the war situation on the front line that Germany could not hold out for a few days. It didn't make much use for him to stay in Europe, so he sent a telegram to Jiang Dengxuan, the 7th Division who was already preparing to board the ship. Stop boarding and return to Shenyang to standby.

The second reason is Xu Shuzheng, the little fan military division hopes to lead the army to Europe in person, and he believes that since Wang Maoru can lead the army to achieve a great victory, he can also do it. So he was ready to transfer Wang Maoru back, and Xu Shuzheng, commander-in-chief of the participating army, was about to rush to the front line.

Wang Maoru sneered in his heart, why are you still here after the battle is over, I thought I was shameless enough, but I didn't expect you to be more shameless than me.

Subsequently, Wang Maoru accepted Xu Shuzheng's order to report to the commander-in-chief of the coalition forces, Foch, and the Italian marshal Valioli. The Italian Chief of the General Staff, Diaz, resigned and returned home. Diaz asked him why he returned to China, Wang Maoru said that he had physical problems, and Diaz said with concern: "Young people, pay attention to your body, no matter how big your career is a mirage." ”

Subsequently, the participating armies of the Chinese countries were reorganized, and Wang Maoru transferred some of the low-level officers of the Second Division and the Fourth Division, so that the Second Division completely became Wang Maoru's army. After the transfer of officers, Wang Mao ordered the expansion of the Second Division, which was originally composed of 12,000 troops of the Second Brigade, and he expanded the baggage battalion composed of 16 Chinese laborers in Europe into the Second Division. This brought the strength of the second division to 22,000 men, which was the same as the main force in size. After Wang Maoru returned to China, the Fourth and Second Divisions of the army that remained in Europe formed the Provisional First Group Army of the participating army, and Gong Xiaoqi served as the commander of the temporary group army. Secretly, Wang Maoru told Gong Xiaoqi not to pay attention to any orders from Duan Qirui's government, and if there was a chance to kill Xu Shuzheng.

Gong Xiaoqi sneered and said, "Show handsome." You see, there is nothing you can do about Xu Shuzheng in China. In Italy, it's our world. ”

Then the busy man Wang Maoru went to Switzerland to say goodbye to Princess Tana, and then said goodbye to his British lover Hathaway in the Aegean Sea, and even said goodbye to the Italian head of state and the chief of the general staff, and then returned to the motherland with the Guards Regiment and more than 1,000 disabled soldiers on the Japanese warship.

It was March when I traveled, and it was already the end of October when I returned to China, and it was estimated that I would return to China in early December.

If it weren't for the fact that this was a warship, if it weren't for Wu Qiuyue, who was known as the Iron Lady, who was standing next to him, Wang Maoru would definitely enjoy it extremely. It's just that the mechanical roar of the warship really made Wang Maoru very excited, especially Wu Qiuyue beside him, with a smug look, as if something happy had happened.

"I said, big girl Wu, what are you smiling at?" Wang Maoru asked, crooked his neck.

"You have to take care of it." Wu Qiuyue returned the sentence.

Look, this is the reason why Wang Maoru doesn't like to talk to her, this guy always speaks in this choking tone, if she doesn't like anyone, it can choke people to death.

can't afford to hide, let's go back, Wang Maoru put on his clothes and prepared to go back. Wu Qiuyue saw it and said, "Don't go." ”

"Huh?" Wang Maoru smiled, "What's wrong, what's the matter?" ”

"Blow the sea breeze with me here." Wu Qiuyue said.

Wang Maoru wanted to leave in her heart, but she couldn't bear to go, so she hesitated here and walked to her side. Wu Qiuyue naturally understood his thoughts, but he didn't have that kind of thoughts about her, and he didn't want to delay her.

Not only did Wang Maoru understand Wu Qiuyue's thoughts, which one in the headquarters was not a human spirit, and Wu Qiuyue didn't understand Wang Maoru's feelings, and although Wang Maoru didn't say it, he took good care of her, and arranged her in the most unpopular but most unprovoked gendarmerie headquarters, what did this gendarme do, and it was improper to deal with soldiers. Wang Maoru's military discipline was not as strict as that of a certain army in later generations, and some of the soldiers were sloppy. If you are in a bad mood, you can't run away with a punishment.

Wu Qiuyue is a branch of the gendarmerie. The female soldiers under her command were also offered as treasures by the soldiers, and there were people who wanted to pursue her who didn't understand things before, but they were warned in private, and they were so frightened that they retreated. Of course, Wang Maoru naturally didn't know about these things, and Wu Qiuyue only smiled and ignored them when she knew. The others knew that Wu Qiuyue ignored it, and they were even more convinced of her thoughts, which also caused none of the 250,000 Northeast Frontier Guards to dare to have any thoughts about her.

"How old are you?" Wu Qiuyue blew the sea breeze, took off the black beret on her head, and her black braid hung down. Blown by the sea breeze, the sideburns in her ears fluttered up, and she suddenly smelled so much at this time.

It's feminine, Wang Maoru thought to himself.

Seagulls circled the warship, and a few Japanese sailors threw breadcrumbs into the water on the deck below. It is said that the fish are fed with breadcrumbs, the small fish chase after them, and then the seagulls catch the fish. This is the most interesting activity that sailors can do on the monotonous sea, and seagulls are the pets of these sailors.

Blue sky, blue sea, seagulls flying, a pleasant scenery.

Wang Maoru said: "Thirty-three, what about you?" ”

"I've been with the general for six years, and I'm Chinese New Year's Eve years old now." Wu Qiuyue said.

Wang Maoru suddenly felt it. She is already thirty years old, a woman is thirty, she is indeed not young, how old is the life expectancy of the Republic of China, only in her forties, the average life expectancy of women is even shorter, is Wu Qiuyue already so old? He thought she was twenty-four or five years old, and he thought she was young, but he didn't think that she was starting to get older.

Wu Qiuyue said: "I am thirty years old. It's already an old lady, isn't it? ”

Wang Maoru smiled: "No, I think it's twenty years old, you look like you're twenty years old, Wu Da girl." How did you grow so young? What's the secret? It's simply Tianshan Tong's grandmother. ”

"Who is Tianshan Tong's grandmother? What do you mean? Wu Qiuyue asked.

Wang Maoru said carelessly that he had leaked his mouth, and pulled out a term for Tianshan Tong's grandmother. How can there be in this era, Master Jin has not yet been born, so he hurriedly explained: "I used to read an ancient woman in ancient books, who has never grown old, and when she is eighty years old, she still looks like a teenage girl. ”

"You're only eighty years old, and your whole family is eighty!" Wu Qiuyue said angrily.

Yes, I really can't explain it to her, Wang Maoru suddenly stammered.

After a while, Wu Qiuyue asked, "Why aren't you angry?" ”

"Angry?" Wang Maoru said, "The country is ill-fated, I am always thinking about how to get the country out of this situation, how can I have time to be angry." ”

"In other words, you only have the country in mind?" Wu Qiuyue asked.

"yes." Wang Maoru said embarrassedly.

"Six years." Wu Qiuyue said lightly.

"What?"

"I said six years." Wu Qiuyue said, "I have known you for six years, at that time you were a frontier brigade commander, the youngest brigade commander, with more than 2,000 people under his command, full of ambition and high spirits, ready to go north to garrison the frontier. ”

Wang Maoru smiled, leaned on the railing, and fell into a memory: "To be honest, at that time, I just wanted to be a small brigade commander, kill the Zongshe Party in Eastern Mongolia, kill the ** elements that split the country, and be a small border brigade commander." At that time, my subordinates were also these people, Li Delin, Li Pinxian, Gong Xiaoqi, Gai Tianjiu, Wang Qiyuan, etc., etc., six years ago, they were only small officers and small battalion commanders, and now they are all division commanders and group army commanders. Everyone has come step by step, step by step, to reach today's position. ”

"Congratulations, you have reached the position you are in today, I guess you will be a national hero when you return to China." Wu Qiuyue said lightly, but there was no joy on her face, it was very bland.

"I don't want to be a national hero, if the country is strong, I'd rather be a peaceful people." Wang Maoru said, and said: "In fact, when I was a child, I dreamed of being born in a landlord's family to be a young master, taking a group of dog slaves all day long, and going to the street to tease women from good families all day long. ”

Wu Qiuyue giggled, smiled and said, "Do you know what your biggest characteristic is? ”

"What is it?" Wang Maoru looked at her, "I don't mind others praising me, the more ruthless the better." ”

Wu Qiuyue said with a smile: "You, in the eyes of women, the biggest advantage is to treat women as equal people, rather than tools for giving birth to children and playthings for venting beast language." ”

Wang Maoru nodded and said, "Go on." ”

"Continue with what?"

"Keep boasting, I think I have more than that, please continue." Wang Maoru pretended to be serious.

Wu Qiuyue couldn't be happy, leaned on the railing and bent over with a smile, and said, "You are really, how can you be like this?" She laughed for a while, and Wang Maoru said, "It's windy here, go back to the cabin." Wu Qiuyue said: "I have waited for six years, and I don't mind waiting for another six years." Wang Maoru was stunned for a moment, and didn't know what to say, Wu Qiuyue smiled indifferently, saluted, and said, "Xiushuai, my subordinates are resting." When Wu Qiuyue entered the cabin, Wang Maoru was still stunned at the bow of the boat. (To be continued.)