Chapter 193 Beat the grass and startle the snake!(1/2)
"Mom Xipi! Who made him post this article!"
In the Wuhan Presidential Palace, when Chiang Kai-shek saw the central report, he was furious...
He did want to deal with Lu Mingxuan, but he just wanted to put him under house arrest quietly, and did not want everyone in the whole country to know about it.
After all, Lu Mingxuan made great contributions in the War of Resistance Against Japan, and there was no sufficient reason that even he could not punish Lu Mingxuan.
But now, this article in the Central News Agency has probably aroused Lu Mingxuan's vigilance. Will Lu Mingxuan still attend the Luoyang high-level combat meeting?
Chen Cheng could only smile bitterly, which was called flattering the horse's legs. The author's intention was good, but he was completely alerting the enemy.
"This is probably because some of the people below saw the intention of the commissioner and were a little eager to make contributions for the moment."
Chen Cheng thought about it and said.
"They are not making contributions! They are simply destroying my big deal! If this happens, do you think Lu Mingxuan will come to Luoyang again?"
Chiang Kai-shek still said in great angrily.
If Lu Mingxuan did not go to Luoyang, then his plan to annex the 98th Army without bloodshed will be completely ruined. How could this make him extremely angry?
But Chen Cheng could only shake his head and smile bitterly.
"You send someone to fire this person. Staying such a person will only ruin my big deal. I don't want to see this person again."
Chiang Kai-shek said with disgust.
"In addition, if you send someone to explain it to Lu Mingxuan, you will say that all this is a misunderstanding, so that he should not take it to heart."
He thought about Lu Mingxuan, who might still be unable to let go of this matter, so he continued, "In addition, give him a divisional position."
"Isn't this not very good?"
Chen Cheng frowned and said.
"Now he is openly disobeying the central government's orders, privately transferring his troops back to Jiyuan, and refusing to attack Qinhuangdao. Not only do we not punish him, but we will increase his ranks, which may play a very bad demonstration role."
"No! This is the matter! Just do as I told you."
Chiang Kai-shek was also a courageous person, but he still understood the principle that he could not bear to let his children get trapped in a wolf.
If Lu Mingxuan can be used to hook the division, then the division is worth it.
And even if Lu Mingxuan is not given the organization, he will still expand his army if he should.
When Chiang Kai-shek thought of this, he felt an incredible headache!
Why is this Lu Mingxuan so rich?
If it were someone else who raised so many soldiers, he would have gone bankrupt long ago!
"I understand, commissioner. Then will our plan continue to be implemented? Lu Mingxuan seems to have noticed it."
Chen Cheng thought about it and said.
"Now it seems that we should continue to implement the original plan and notify the people below that before the Luoyang high-level combat meeting, no matter what Lu Mingxuan does, he should not make things difficult for him, and even strongly support him. As long as he goes to Luoyang, we will win."
Chiang Kai-shek thought about it and said.
"But I guess he won't be so easily fooled. Since the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, he has only left Jiyuan in the Battle of Nanjing. In addition, he has always stayed in his old nest Jiyuan, and he has a large number of armored vehicles to protect him when traveling. From this perspective, he attaches great importance to his own safety."
After hearing his words, Chiang Kai-shek also highly agreed with his views.
"If he is not fooled, let's just pretend that this plan has never happened."
Chen Cheng was also silent. Lu Mingxuan's strength was too strong. If Chiang Kai-shek insisted on taking military action against Lu Mingxuan, then they would suffer both losses, and in the end they would only be cheaper.
Moreover, recently, news came from Japan that Japan's political axe was crazily expanding its military to prepare for war, so Chiang Kai-shek did not dare to be too careless.
"But the 98th Army is still very good as a sharp knife. As long as it is used well, it will definitely be a sharp blade against the Japanese."
"You are right. The 98th Army is indeed very powerful, especially their armored troops. Once they launch their power, they will be unstoppable."
Chen Cheng also said with agreement.
Although the Kuomintang also has three armored divisions, he knew that these three armored divisions together may not necessarily be opponents of an armored division of the 98th Army.
Because their armored divisions are all light tanks, and these tanks are even worse than the reconnaissance tanks of the 98th Army.
At this moment, Qian Dajun knocked on the door and walked in.
Looking at Qian Dajun's expression of being eager to speak, Chiang Kai-shek frowned and asked, "Is there anything wrong with you here?"
"It is indeed a small matter to report to the Chairman."
Qian Dajun said hesitantly.
"The weapons that the 98th Army originally planned to sell to us last month have not been delivered yet. They said that due to the expansion of the war, they have used a large amount of resources to ammunition produced by frontline soldiers, so delivery must be waited until the end of this month, and the quantity will be reduced by at least half."
After hearing his words, Chiang Kai-shek's expression changed drastically.
"What did you say? What do they mean? Are they not going to sell weapons anymore?"
The weapons sold to the Kuomintang are not only reliable in quality, but also of a wide variety and powerful, and are deeply loved by almost all soldiers and officers. If this weapon source is lost, it will undoubtedly be an extremely huge loss for the Kuomintang.
Chen Cheng thought for a while and said, "I think they should be worried that we should attack them, so they temporarily stopped our weapons supply. As long as this gust of storm passes, they will likely continue to sell weapons to us."
Chiang Kai-shek nodded, and he also thought that this is probably the reason.
A considerable part of the income from the 98th Army's raising troops comes from selling weapons to the Kuomintang. If this income is missing, the 98th Army will definitely be in an extremely huge financial crisis.
Of course, what he didn't know was that Lu Mingxuan not only sold weapons to the Kuomintang Central Committee and various warlords, but also had extremely profitable stocking income abroad, and he received more than 10 million US dollars in net income almost every month.
And soon, he will sign a huge military purchase agreement with the Germans, and then he will have an extremely huge amount of funds to be recorded, and this amount is likely to be more than 500 million German marks.
With so much money, how could he be in a financial crisis?
On June 2, the Jinsui Army finally captured Yuanping, and the 26th Division of the Japanese corps stationed in Mongolia and the Second Brigade of the Duli Army were defeated and fled to Dai County.
On June 4th, within a command center of the 98th Army outside Beiping City.
Zheng Gouyuan, the commander of the Second Armored Division, is holding a farewell dinner for some officers who are about to return to Jiyuan for promotion.
Zheng Gouhou sat alone in the middle of the banquet, and below him were officers with various military ranks.
Although their positions vary, some are deputy battalion commanders, and some are even just platoon leaders, after returning to Jiyuan this time, if nothing unexpected happens, each of them will be promoted at least one level.
Zheng Gousheng glanced at them, then raised a cup of tea and said, "You will be back to Jiyuan tomorrow. We all had to drink a cup of pain, but now we are fighting, so we can only use tea instead of wine. Come on, we have done this cup together. I, Zheng Gousheng, are a rough man, I can't say that so nice. Here I wish you all promotion and wealth in the future."
After saying that, Zheng Gouzhou drank all the tea in the cup.
"Okay! Everyone has made this cup together!"
The officers below quickly responded to the promise, and after that, they happily drank the cup of tea.
For most of them who are born into bandits, being able to get into such a high-ranking officer and becoming a hero of anti-Japanese war is simply a light smoke coming from the ancestral grave. I don’t know how much virtue the ancestors have accumulated to encounter such good things.
And after returning this time, I will be promoted again, of course everyone is very happy and even more loyal to Lu Mingxuan.
After seeing them drinking tea together, Zheng Gousheng continued to greet them: "Everyone just eat it. These are all the surrendered Han Ji filial piety to us, and they don't have any money!"
After saying that, he tore off a large piece of chicken legs and started eating it in big mouthfuls.
"It's really a cheap man for him to not take their lives."
One of them shouted.
His words immediately caused a burst of laughter, and the officers even wiped out the chicken, duck, fish and meat in front of them.
In the past three months, they have been fighting one after another. They haven't even eaten a few bites of rice, and they have lost a little weight. Now that they have the chance, they will certainly not be polite.
However, two or three of them were a little absent-minded, as if they had something to worry about.
Of course, all this was seen by one of the young officers, so he turned his eyes and said loudly: "Have you read the recent newspaper? It seems that the Chairman is very dissatisfied with our military officers and plans to question our military officers."
"Our old Li doesn't know a lot of words. I know the newspaper, but it doesn't know me."
One of the big and thick lieutenants stood up and patted his chest and said.
After hearing his words, everyone burst into laughter again.
Even Zheng Gousheng laughed and scolded: "Wang Fan, you guy, I asked you to recognize more words before, but you just don't want to."
"I have no choice. When I saw the book, I felt dizzy and wanted to sleep very much, so I couldn't continue reading it. However, I heard about this. In addition, I also know a top secret news that there may be a traitor in our 98 army! He plans to sell our military captain to the chairman!!"
After hearing his words, the entire scene immediately became aware of the needle, and everyone was stunned by the news. They could not believe their ears, and someone dared to betray the military captain?
Didn’t he know that all of theirs were given by the military captain?
Without military captains, will the Central Army take these bandits seriously?
Isn't he cutting off their future?
For a moment, almost everyone felt very angry!
A big and thick man smashed the tea bowl in front of him to the ground and smashed it to pieces, and then cursed loudly: "His grandmother is a bear, but someone dares to betray the military throne! He is against the sky! Wang Fan, tell me who that bastard is. I am the one who is not good at death. I am his grandson."
"That's right, Wang Fan, quickly say his name! I'm going to skin him too! Then let him suffer three swords and six holes, and die with all his blood."
"There is also the chairman who dares to punish our military captains. At worst, we will rebel."
"Yes! Against it!"
Soon the others shouted loudly.
To be continued...