In winter, the old river estuary is white. The cold wind blows through the fields and passes through the cold water. The branches stand barely on the ground, trembling... This is a cold winter, but it is very lively in the Laohekou area. The roads are full of convoys and migrant workers. After the Wuhan Battle, Li Zongren's Fifth War Zone Command was first in Nanyang, western Henan, and later moved to Laohekou.

After moving to Laohekou, after stabilizing the defense line, Li Zongren started a large-scale road traffic construction in the fifth theater. In order not to affect farm work, most of these constructions were placed in the slack farm.

Li Zongren was very depressed at this moment. Chongqing's order had arrived. Although he was mentally prepared, a sense of loss still lingered in his heart. Xu Zuyi understood his mood very well. In recent years, they were becoming more and more skillful in cooperating. In the past two months, the signs of Li Zongren's transfer have become more and more obvious, and the atmosphere in the headquarters has become more and more dull. Although Li Zongren still works step by step, builds the road, rectifies the troops, and continues to promote social reform.

In recent years, Li Zongren has carried out social reforms in northern Hubei and western Henan in the image of Shangqiu Meicao. However, Li Zongren's social reforms are also different from Shangqiu. He did not use the party organization, but used the National Salvation Association and the People's Training Department to establish amnesty organizations in various places, promote rent reduction and interest rate reduction, and then establish reserves in various counties.

The process of these reforms is very slow, which is the difference between Li Zongren and Zhuang Jihua. Se Zongren is more mainly through social organizations and is softer; Zhuang Jihua appears to be tougher, and even uses the army to force it if necessary.

In two years, seeing that most of the changes began to have results, the enthusiasm of the people became mobilized, the society began to organize, and the reserves were established. However, with the mistakes of the Zao Battle, Chiang Kai-shek had the excuse to adjust the command system of the Five War Zones.

Both Li Zongren and Xu Zuyi were actually very clear that the failure of the Suizao Battle was just an excuse. The real reason was that the strong military strength of the Fifth War Zone and hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers were in the hands of the Guangxi leader who had long disagreements with Chiang Kai-shek, which would not make Chiang Kai-shek feel at ease in any case.

For Li Zongren, Zhuang Jihua's takeover of the Fifth War Zone was both expected and unexpected. After Li Zhilong arrived at the Fifth War Zone, he visited Li Zongren several times and provided a list, hoping that Li Zongren could transfer these people to the Fifth War Zone. Li Zongren had this feeling at that time, but Zhuang Jihua was being suppressed at that time, and he thought that this was Zhuang Jihua's preservation of the backbone of the Zhuang clan, so he not only did not refuse, but on the contrary, he was very happy that all the people Zhuang Jihua used were hard-working personnel and had rich grassroots work experience, which could solve the current shortage of cadres in the war zone.

"Dong De and the Cultural Revolution took over is also a great blessing. The social reform in the Fifth War Zone can continue to be promoted." Xu Zuyi comforted Li Zongren. The spacious airport has not been completely completed and there is only one runway. Several migrant workers nearby are working day and night to build a second runway.

Li Zongren looked at the nearby few planes, how many ships were there, and there were several field airports near Laohekou. The current sky was in the hands of the Chinese Air Force. The main force of the Japanese Air Force had long been transferred to the Pacific Ocean. The few remaining aircraft had already fled to the front line of Beijing and Shanghai under the siege of the Chinese Air Force. Large-scale air combat in the war of resistance was extremely rare. Most of the time, the Chinese Air Force soared in the sky and bombed the Japanese army on the ground unscrupulously.

The situation on the battlefield is getting better and better. In this war, a group of brave and warlike Huangpu generals represented by Zhuang Jihua have grown up. Chiang Kai-shek is gradually replacing the veterans with these people in a planned manner. Hu Zongnan is the northwest, and Yu Jishi is Yu Jishi. Now the most important and warlike Huangpu student leaders are coming.

"Maybe" Li Zongren's attitude was irresistible: "Yan Mou, the Cultural Revolution is relatively easy to get along with, and he is a person who is absolutely unwilling to defend. After he comes, Chiang Kai-shek will pay more and more attention to the Fifth War Zone. I think you'd better stay.

When he learned that if Li Zongren was, Xu Zuyi also expressed that he would do the same, hoping to continue to serve as Li Zongren's chief of staff, but Li Zongren never responded positively. Today he finally answered this question positively.

Xu Zuyi sighed slightly. Zhuang Jihua was easy to get along with in the past, but this time this time was different. Before the person arrived, his confidants were transferred to the fifth war zone. It was obvious that after he came, he would undergo surgery on the war zone. Whether he would leave him behind was not sure. He might as well follow Li Zongren to Tianshui. "I'm a place for retirement." Li Zongren's careless expression was full of bitterness: "Brother Yan Mou, your talent should not be buried here." Xu Zuyi sighed softly: "Don't you dislike me?" "Which said," Li Zongren shook his head: "You know, I want to take some people from the fifth war zone, and on the one hand, I will make a seat for the Cultural Revolution, and on the other hand, I will clean the environment."

Li Zongren said these two points a little vaguely, but Xu Zuyi understood that some of the people he took away were what he wanted to take away, and some were causing trouble in the Fifth War Zone. He simply took them away and left a relatively clean Fifth War Zone for Zhuang Jihua.

A few black dots appeared in the sky, and the sound of the engine roar gradually became obvious. The escort fighter plane hovered in the sky, and the transport plane in the middle landed on the airport. Li Zongren and Xu Zuyi drove to the plane by car. Zhuang Jihua had already got off the plane and stood by the gangway waiting. "Dong De, Brother Yan Mou, it's really troublesome." Zhuang Jihua didn't expect that Li Zongren and Xu Zuyi got off the car, and he rubbed his hands with some embarrassment. Li Zongren laughed twice: "If you want to change to someone else's plow, I will definitely not come here." "If you can win the favor of De Gong, Zhuang is lucky in his three lives." Zhuang Jihua said that Gong Xiuhua and others also got off the plane. They stood aside and watched the three chat quietly.

Li Zongren turned around and walked towards the car. Zhuang Jihua and him walked side by side. Xu Zuyi was slightly behind half a body. Li Zongren said as he walked: "The Chairman chose you to take over the fifth zone because he had a keen eye for talent. The battle of Suzao was not well won. The morale of the war zone was a little depressed. You, the general who was always victorious, was just needed to cheer up your morale."

"Dong De was too humble and everyone had it. The fifth war zone was still under the command of the Jiangbei Command. I was a subordinate of De Gong." Zhuang Jihua was a little excited. The fifth war zone was the target he had chosen long ago. Even if Chiang Kai-shek didn't take action, he would find a way to get this position.

When he walked to Che, Li Zongren opened the car door and made a gesture of inviting him. Zhuang Jihua used sunlight to ask him to get on first. Li Zongren did not refuse and bent down to sit on. Zhuang Jihua then got on the car. Xu Zuyi walked towards the car behind. Wu Ziniu quickly came over and took the co-pilot. Li Zongren's adjutant was stunned. Li Zongren told him to go to the car behind.

After the car started, Li Zongren spoke casually: "Wen Cui is too humble. What's going on with the Jiangbei Command? You and I know it in our hearts."

Zhuang Jihua turned his head and looked at Li Zongren, and finally shook his head: "Dong De may be too pessimistic. Let's do this. I will talk to you in detail later. The Jiangbei Command is definitely not a waste of time."

Li Zongren turned his head to look at Zhuang Jihua. Zhuang Jihua smiled at him with deep meaning. Li Zongren was a little confused. Zhuang Jihua did not continue to speak, but changed the topic. "I heard that Degong vigorously promoted social reform in the war zone. There are too few people who can have such foresight in the Party and the country."

Li Zongren couldn't help laughing again: "Wencui, are you praising yourself. The social reform I implemented is not a copy of you in Shangqiu. Unfortunately, I can't control the Party Gao, so I can only implement it through non-governmental organizations, and there are many obstacles.

"Well, there are always some people who hold on to their own interests and ignore national interests and social interests, and they are not ruthless to these people. If they have a way out, the country will have no hope." Zhuang Jihua was not polite, and his tone was full of murderous aura: "Social rose grass is equally important as anti-Japanese resistance, and even more important than anti-Japanese resistance.

"It seems you came with a knife. The Cultural Revolution has changed rapidly, and today is different from the past." Li Zongren shook his head slightly. Over the years, he has also seen clearly that Zhuang Jihua's greatest help comes from Chiang Kai-shek's support, both in Chongqing and Shangqiu, but can Chiang Kai-shek still support him as much as before? Li Zongren didn't think so, so he secretly helped Zhuang Jihua and took some trouble away.

It was his decision to secretly assist Zhuang Jihua. In his opinion, Zhuang Jihua is different from Chen Cheng. He is not politically consistent with Chiang Kai-shek. In the future, the two sides may cooperate, and at least if necessary, they can give them a message.

"Degong's keen vision" Zhuang Jihua smiled: "I know it in my heart. Degong has laid a good foundation for me. I will not make major changes. During the war, stability is the most important thing. "Oh, Zhicao, then I will wait and see."

The two smiled and looked at the scenery outside the car window. The car entered a renovated road. The military police in front of the road saw their convoy arrive and quickly stopped other vehicles and let them pass first.

On one side of the road, countless migrant workers were waving their pickaxes and busy on the construction site. Li Zongren saw that Zhuang Jihua was very interested in looking at these migrant workers. "The war zone is building roads, which is part of the Sichuan-Europe border on a larger scale. Li Zongren explained.

Zhuang Jihua nodded. After the mechanized army arrived, transportation was particularly important. Li Zongren sighed again: "We started late. The degree of mechanization of the Japanese army was much higher than that of us. Therefore, we not only did not build traffic, but instead wanted to destroy traffic. It was not until the United States joined the war that we began to build roads on a large scale."

Zhuang Jihua did not comment on the truth about Li Zongren's words. The car became bumpy and the two did not speak for the time being. After a long journey, they gradually became stubborn. After this toss and troubles, both of them lost interest in speaking.

The car did not enter the city, and the headquarters was located in Luliuzhuang, west of the city. The Luliu River flowed into the Han River not far east of the village. It has convenient transportation and is an important commodity distribution center in the Laohekou area.
Chapter completed!