Chapter Thirty-Three The First Army (1)
This meal undoubtedly brought the strange relationship between Chen Xiuwen and Yu Wenwan a lot closer, and both sides had a new understanding and favorable impression of each other.
The next day was the day when the ninth class graduates went to the army to report. Chen Xiuwen led a dozen students to the garrison of the 88th Division. As a guard force to guard the capital, the garrison of the 88th Division is located in the General Mountain in the southern suburbs of Nanjing. Generally, they can be assigned to the Central Military Academy Teaching Corps, the 36th Division, the 87th Division and the 88th Division, and the elite troops among the elite, are all relatively outstanding graduates.
The 88th Division obviously attached great importance to this group of nine-stage students assigned to the group, and the teacher Sun Yuanliang met them in person. Chen Xiuwen's biggest impression of Sun Yuanliang was that he was the father of Qin Han, the famous Taiwanese movie star in the future. As expected, at first sight, Sun Yuanliang was indeed quite similar to Qin Han in terms of body shape and appearance.
After coming to this era, because Sun Yuanliang and Shen Xiude were classmates of Huangpu First Class, Chen Xiuwen had also heard about some of Sun Yuanliang's situations. Like Hu Zongnan, Yu Jishi, Song Xilian, Gui Yongqing and other Huangpu generals, he was promoted relatively quickly and was quite trusted by Principal Jiang. However, Sun Yuanliang's character was not worthy of praise. It is said that he had escaped at the last minute during the Northern Expedition. However, this did not affect Sun Yuanliang's success in the Central Army. After the Northern Expedition, he went to study in the Japanese non-commissioned school. When he came back, he turned into a major general brigade commander of the 259th Brigade of the 87th Division and participated in the 128th Songhu War. After Yu Jishi, the commander of the 88th Division, resigned as the commander of the 88th Division due to physical reasons, Sun Yuanliang became the commander of the 88th Division.
"Dear students, welcome you to our 88th Division. As the commander, I am both your commander and your senior. In our 88th Division......"
"······I think I have produced countless revolutionary patriots in the Whampoa Military Academy. They sacrificed their lives for the revolution and shed their blood to forge my Huangpu soul. I hope that everyone will continue to carry forward the Huangpu spirit in the future, serve the country with loyalty, drive away foreign aggression, strengthen the glory of China, and promote the reputation of China."
Listening to Sun Yuanliang's enthusiastic and majestic speech, Chen Xiuwen couldn't help but secretly raised his thumbs up, and was famous for his unfair scholars. Just from this speech, we can see that Sun Yuanliang is far from an ordinary person. After hearing this, more than a dozen other nine-year students all felt excited and were filled with respect for their teachers.
"Master, this is Chen Xiuwen I mentioned to you." Huang Meixing pointed at Chen Xiuwen and introduced to Sun Yuanliang.
Although Chen Xiuwen was influenced by Chen Xiude, he looked down on Sun Yuanliang, but he would live under Sun Yuanliang's hands in the future and did not dare to neglect him. He quickly saluted a military salute and shouted: "Hello, commander."
Sun Yuanliang replied with a military salute, looked at Chen Xiuwen with interest, and said with a smile: "Stop. It turns out that you are Chen Xiuwen. I have heard Brother Jingzhong mention you a lot." As he said that, he turned around and said to Huang Meixing, "I remember Mengguo had a very high evaluation of him back then."
Huang Meixing also smiled and said, "Yes, fortunately, Mengguo is far away in Fujian now, otherwise he would have to compete with us."
"Yes." Sun Yuanliang nodded, reached out and patted Chen Xiuwen on the shoulder and said, "No, Chen Xiuwen. He has the style of Brother Zhongliang back then. Do it well, I'm optimistic about you."
Although Sun Yuanliang showed his different attitude towards Chen Xiuwen, Chen Xiuwen still saluted the two commanders in front of him again without being arrogant or humble, and said loudly: "Thank you, Master, Xiuwen will definitely live up to the expectations of Master and Commander Huang."
Although Huang Meixing is Sun Yuanliang's subordinate, both of them are classmates from Huangpu First Class. In addition, Huang Meixing is older than Sun Yuanliang, so it can be seen that Sun Yuanliang respects Huang Meixing quite respects Huang Meixing. He proposed to Huang Meixing that Chen Xiuwen, Cheng De'an, Tang Lin and several other students with higher grades were assigned to the 264th Brigade and agreed.
Huang Meixing assigned all the three of Chen Xiuwen and the others to Zhu Chi's 528th Regiment. Chen Xiuwen was specially asked by General Zhang, so he naturally could not treat him unfairly. He made an exception to award the rank of Captain Chen Xiuwen and appointed him as the company commander of the 1st Battalion of the 528th Regiment. Cheng De'an was awarded the rank of lieutenant and was the platoon leader of the 1st Battalion of the 1st Battalion of the 528th Regiment. Tang Lin, who was determined to follow Chen Xiuwen to the 1st Company, was attracted by Zhu Chi and was re-elected as the 1st Platoon Commander of the 1st Battalion of the Regiment Headquarters.
When the 1st Battalion of the 528th Regiment was basically crippled when he was defending the temple, he was basically disabled. Now the company has almost been replaced. Most of them are the Hunan soldiers who were later added and the soldiers of the former 19th Route Army who surrendered in the pacification of Fujian.
The current deputy company commander and platoon leader of the first company was Zhang Zhengjie, a company commander of the former 19th Route Army. Zhang Zhengjie was born in the army and was a veteran who had been in the army for ten years. He participated in the Eastern Expedition, the Northern Expedition, the Central Plains War, the Third Anti-Encirclement and Shuanghu War, etc. He had a very high prestige in the first company, and even Huang Likui, the third platoon leader of the third platoon origin of the Hunan Army, was quite convinced by him. Originally, Zhang Zhengjie always thought that the position of the company commander of the first company was his own, but unexpectedly, Chen Xiuwen, who had just graduated from the military academy, came.
After seeing off the old commander of the first battalion who personally sent Chen Xiuwen and Cheng Dean to take office, Zhu Chi, the deputy commander of the 528th Regiment, was depressed and just returned to the barracks, Huang Likui rushed in, threw the hat on his head on the table, and said resentfully: "Tornado, the position of this company commander is obviously yours, but he actually sent a student child who had not even grown all the birds."
Huang Likui was a Hunan recruit who joined the first company after the Battle of the Temple Walk. Because of Kong Wu's strength and bravery in the war, he studied in a private school for several years. When he pacified the Fujian Incident, he was promoted to the platoon leader of the third platoon when he was promoted.
"Don't talk nonsense, Company Commander Chen is an outstanding student at the Central Military Academy. Didn't you hear the deputy regiment commander say that Company Commander Chen participated in the temple defense battle before joining the army." Although Zhang Zhengjie felt uncomfortable, he still scolded.
"So what if you have participated in the temple defense battle? Brother, you may have fought more battles than that boy Chen Xiuwen has fought. Why can he be the company commander as soon as he came? It's because he has an older brother who is a high-ranking official in the General Staff Headquarters, and his brigade commander are all classmates." Huang Likui did not stop and said with a look of grudge against Zhang Zhengjie.
Zhang Zhengjie frowned and sat down on his bed. In fact, he was not convinced. He had been in the army for ten years, fought from Guangzhou to North China, and had worked with the Japanese on the battlefield of Songhu. Although he surrendered from the 19th Route Army, in terms of qualifications, he was definitely qualified to be the company commander. Moreover, he was originally the company commander in the 19th Route Army. Now Chen Xiuwen is here, not only is he much younger than him, but he has just graduated from a military academy. How could Zhang Zhengjie be convinced if he is his immediate boss?
Seeing that Zhang Zhengjie didn't speak, Huang Likui became more and more excited as he spoke. Finally, he lifted his sleeves and snorted coldly: "Brother, look at it. Within a month, I let Chen Xiuwen, the treasure maker, roll up and get out of bed. I thought that we would be the company commander in a row, and it would be so cheap."
Hearing Huang Likui's words become more and more out of style, Zhang Zhengjie couldn't help but frown and said, "Likui, don't mess around. There is a difference between superiors and inferiors in the army, don't do anything out of style."
"Brother, don't worry about this. He Chen Xiuwen is not you. When did I, Huang Likui, have I, had done a loss-making business?" Huang Likui said with a smug smile, and then snorted coldly: "With a platoon leader who looks like a naughty head, I want to gain a foothold in our whole life. He thinks it is beautiful."
Zhang Zhengjie thought that when he first came at the beginning of the year, Huang Likui was not convinced by him and went against him in a different way. Fortunately, Zhang Zhengjie had been in the army for many years and had seen storms and waves. He was surrounded by a group of brothers from the former 19th Route Army who surrendered together. He conquered Huang Likui and established his position in the first company. If Chen Xiuwen had no experience, no foundation, and wanted to gain a foothold in the first company, Zhang Zhengjie was just about to see how Chen Xiuwen dealt with it.
After seeing off Zhu Chi, Chen Xiuwen looked through the company's roster in the company and became familiar with the situation as soon as possible. Cheng Dean frowned and walked in and said, "Brother Wen..."
Before Cheng De'an could speak, Chen Xiuwen frowned and interrupted, "Is the old problem again?"
Cheng Dean quickly changed his words and said, "Oh, company commander."
"What's the matter? Have you ever been to your own rank?" Chen Xiuwen asked while flipping through the roster.
Cheng Dean said worriedly: "Company Commander, I saw that the situation in this company is not right. When Deputy Commander Zhu announced his appointment just now, I found that Zhang Zhengjie and Huang Likui were a little dissatisfied. I just went to the platoon and found that half of the soldiers in the second platoon were Hunan soldiers and half from the 19th Route Army. I also found out that the first platoon led by Zhang Zhengjie was all old subordinates who came from the 19th Route Army with him, and the third platoon was Hunan soldiers. If these two kids were bad, I was afraid that the soldiers would not be able to take them too much."
In fact, Chen Xiuwen had noticed the situation that Cheng De'an mentioned long ago. His purpose of looking through the roster was to understand the situation of the soldiers in the company. Chen Xiuwen, who had been a conscript for two years, was also very clear that as long as he was in the army, from the entire army to the smallest squad, there would be mountains and factions. When Chen Xiuwen joined the army, the relationship between fellow villagers, urban soldiers and rural soldiers, veterans and new soldiers would form cliques. This is the case with the modern army, let alone the troops of this era. However, Chen Xiuwen was not worried much. A modern man who had traveled from later generations and a person who had been leading nearly eighty years ago than all the people of this era. If he couldn't stand even in this small one, Chen Xiuwen would be better than that piece of old tofu to kill him.
Chapter completed!