Chapter 128: The Hot Buds in the Battle of Shanghai (III)

Deputy Director Ma once again carries four gold bars and brings Chen Xiuwen to convey his reverence and gratitude to Minister He for returning to report to Minister He.

When Minister He listened to Deputy Director Ma's report, a smile appeared on his always serious face. When Deputy Director Ma walked out of the office, he said to himself: "It turns out he is still a little slippery."

With He Yingqin's understanding of Chiang Kai-shek, Chairman Jiang has listed Chen Xiuwen as a key training target. Given that Chiang Kai-shek was always on guard against him, he was not good to reach out. However, the 20th Independent Brigade really helped the 15th Group this time. With Chiang's acquiesce, Chen Cheng, who has been eager to expand his power, will definitely take the opportunity to recruit him this time, especially when Zhang Zhizhong resigned as commander-in-chief of the Ninth Army. He Yingqin's purpose was to show goodwill to Chiang Kai-shek on one hand, and to prevent a rising star like Chen Xiuwen from throwing into Chen Cheng's arms.

However, after listening to the words that Chen Xiuwen told Deputy Director Ma to express to him that seemed too flattering and numb. He Yingqin was relieved. Such a sloppy person would never easily turn to Chen Cheng, not to mention that he also had a big brother next to the chairman.

At this time, Chen Xiuwen was immersed in excitement. Among the replenishing troops, the best security regiment was the security regiment, followed by the new recruits who had been trained by military training, and the worst was the strong men. The Zhejiang Security regiment was the best quality among all provincial and regional security regiments. With the addition of two Zhejiang Security regiments and all equipped according to the standards of the German Army troops, it completely rebuilt an independent 20th brigade that was not inferior to the original one. Moreover, during this period, Teng Donglin, deputy brigade commander and commander of the 40th regiment, was not idle either. Not only did he snatch the Songjiang security guards, but he also recruited many young students who came to sign up. These students generally have high school and junior high school education, and a few were high school students, which made Chen Xiuwen even more ecstatic.

"A inch of mountains and rivers, an inch of blood; 100,000 young men and 100,000 troops." Chen Xiuwen still remembers this loud slogan of the Expeditionary Force back then. A knowledgeable army is a unit with faith, a unit that knows why they fight. Moreover, the rebuilt artillery battalion, communication battalion, and the future Chen Xiuwen has always dreamed of building a mechanized army, all of which require educated officers and soldiers.

In the next few days, Chen Xiuwen was busy with the reconstruction of the troops and training of recruits. Fortunately, the military quality of these two security regiments in Zhejiang was very good, no less than that of regular troops. In addition, many injured soldiers returned to the team after recovering from injuries, the 38th Regiment and 42nd Regiment quickly recovered their vitality.

"I have handled all the funerals of our fallen brothers. According to your instructions, the ashes of the brothers were transported back to Wanxian. Our brigade's expedition this time was killed in total. All the brothers had names and surnames on record, and none of them were missing."

On this day, Zheng Huaishan, the logistics director who had been handling the aftermath, finally returned to the brigade headquarters to report to Chen Xiuwen. Zheng Huaishan was also very busy during this period. He was dealing with the ammunition supply of the troops during the war and the aftermath aftermath. He lost a lot of weight in less than a month.

Chen Xiuwen clicked, called Zheng Huaishan to sit down, and sighed and asked, "Have you all the pensions for brothers?"

"All have been distributed." As he said, Zheng Huaishan said with a bitter expression: "However, the brothers have suffered a lot this time. You have ordered that all pensions be paid twice. We don't have much money left now."

Chen Xiuwen was stunned when he looked at Zheng Huaishan. He had never been worried about money.

Seeing Chen Xiuwen looking at him blankly, Zheng Huaishan stood up and said, "Host, don't think I am corrupt again. The Ministry of Military Affairs has only paid 200,000 yuan in total. I have posted all the benefits of Tongda Commercial Bank over the years." As he said, Zheng Huaishan seemed a little aggrieved and said, "It also includes 10% of my members, too."

"Oh!" Chen Xiuwen suddenly patted his head, "It's all my fault, it's all my fault." Chen Xiuwen blamed himself repeatedly. In fact, in addition to strategic materials such as weapons and ammunition, Hong Junwei also gave Chen Xiuwen 100,000 US dollars every month. Because of the confidentiality, Chen Xiuwen did not let Zheng Huaishan handle it, and sent it to the Shen family's account, which was taken care of by Shen Xiuwen's brother-in-law Tang Wenbin.

"Why didn't you say it earlier if you were short of money?"

"Host, this has been fighting some time ago, so I'm not going to bother you. Besides, in order to fight against Japan, my brothers have lost all their lives, and my little money is nothing. However, now my savings are almost done. I have added thousands of people at once, and I'm really not going to be able to maintain it." Zheng Huaishan said to Chen Xiuwen with a grievance. He couldn't tell Chen Xiuwen that he had come to see him several times when you were hospitalized a few days ago, but Miss Zeng stopped him and refused to see him.

"Okay, okay. I'll send Wanxian a telegram later and ask my brother-in-law to send 500,000 yuan. From now on, let him send you 300,000 yuan on time every month. By the way, you can post the money you have to yourself. When the money arrives, you can bring it up first." Chen Xiuwen waved his hand and said.

Zheng Huaishan immediately had 500,000 yuan when he heard it, and 300,000 yuan a month from now on. However, when he heard Chen Xiuwen ask him to take out the money he posted first, he said embarrassedly: "Host, you see that these are your own money, so let me forget about my little money."

"Okay, it's not enough for you to lose the money. Forget it, look at your painful face. It's better to save it well. Maybe there's still time to post it in the future." Chen Xiuwen quipped with a smile.

"Oh, by the way, after my family moved to Wanxian, I bought a lot of land there. I was thinking about setting up a Fenjun Farm. After these battles, many of the more than 2,000 injured brothers were disabled and could no longer carry guns and fight. For these brothers, I think we can't pay for the disability pension and ignore it. If they want, they can send them to Wanxian, and their families can also go with them together, either helping to work in the Fenjun Farm or going to the Shen family's factory. You."

Before Chen Xiuwen could finish speaking, Zheng Huaishan suddenly interrupted Chen Xiuwen and nodded with excitement, "I'm willing, I'm so willing, I'm in the air. You, you, you can't say that, I, I."

Zheng Huaishan was so excited that he couldn't speak. He suddenly stood at attention and saluted Chen Xiuwen, and said in a choked voice: "House, on behalf of all the wounded brothers, I thank you for your great kindness."

Although Zheng Huaishan always flattered Chen Xiuwen, and suddenly became so formal, Chen Xiuwen couldn't accept it for a moment. He quickly stood up and bowed and said, "I said Lao Zheng, what are you doing?"

As a modern person, the idea of ​​setting up a Fengjun Farm to accommodate injured and disabled brothers has long been formed in Shen Xiuwen's mind, but today it happened to be proposed to Zheng Huaishan. I didn't expect that Zheng Huaishan would have this expression.

"You may not know that in the past, these disabled brothers could not carry guns and fight, and could only get a little disability pension and leave the army. Most of them have no skills and are disabled again. Many of them have to beg along the street after spending the disability pension, starve to death, die of illness, or wait for death." Zheng Huaishan said with tears in his eyes.

Listening to Zheng Huaishan's words, Chen Xiuwen was also panicked. He sighed and waved his hand and said, "Old Zheng, don't talk about it anymore. You must also hurry up on this matter. In the future, you must remember that we cannot leave any of the dead brothers and disabled brothers. I will erect a monument for them. As long as we have the ability, we must keep in charge. We cannot let the heroes bleed and cry."

"You can't let the heroes bleed and cry." Zheng Huaishan murmured and repeatedly in his mouth several times, and two lines of hot tears flowed down his cheeks.

When Zheng Huaishan saluted Chen Xiuwen again and went out, looking at Zheng Huaishan's back, Chen Xiuwen sighed deeply. He dared not say that he would care about his disabled brothers for the rest of his life, nor did he dare to say that after the fallen brothers erected the monument, could the people of future generations remember them? He knew too well the direction of history, and even where he should go, he looked confused and helpless at this time.

"Report." The report from the adjutant Ma Congping woke up from his meditation. Adjutant Ma Congping also followed Chen Xiuwen to crawl out of the dead in Luodian. This kid was very lucky and was shot by the Japanese 38th rifle bullets. After two days of raising him, he became energetic again.

"Brigate, Chief Chen from the 15th Army Army called."

When Chen Xiuwen heard this, he quickly took the message from Ma Congping and started reading it.

Chen Cheng's telegram was very simple, the general idea was to thank the 20th Independent Brigade for helping the 15th Army recapture and defend Luodian, expressing condolences to Chen Xiuwen's injury, and finally informing them that a thousand Hubei recruits would arrive in Songjiang tomorrow.

"This Chief Chen is very generous." This was Chen Xiuwen's first reaction after reading the telegram.

Originally, when he sent a telegram to Luo Zhuoying to ask him for troops and equipment, it was mainly out of anger at the delay in reinforcements. He also knew that the four main divisions of the 15th Army were fighting with the Neon Army in Baoshan, Luodian and Yuepu areas, and the casualties were also very heavy. Unexpectedly, Chief Chen actually added a thousand new recruits to him in a very difficult situation.
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