November 12, 1938, 8:00 am.

Hualong Town, Fanyu District, southeast suburb of Guangzhou.

Temporary garrison of the 512th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army.

Hualong Town has a profound cultural heritage, with Longmen Bridge, Shalu Fort, various ancient ancestral halls and other cultural relics and historical sites all over the town. Most of the buildings are famous for their ancient style, adjacent to the Pearl River Channel, and only separated by a water in its northwest is Changzhou Island.

Many people may not know about Cheung Chau Island in later generations, but when it comes to a school on Cheung Chau Island, everyone knows it.

This school standing on Cheung Chau Island is the famous Whampoa Military Academy in China and abroad!

The former site of the Whampoa Military Academy is only one water away from Hualong Town, the temporary garrison of the 512th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army.

Standing by the river in Hualong Town and looking out, you can clearly see the Whampoa Military Academy located on Cheung Chau Island. You can see the rows of buildings full of historical atmosphere. People with sharp eyes can even see the bricks and tiles of the military school.

Suddenly, a strong atmosphere of revolution came towards us along the breeze!

Today is November 12th, which will be a very special and very important day for the 512th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army.

Today, the 512th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army will hold promotion ceremonies, as well as the first rank award ceremony of the 512th Brigade. From ordinary soldiers to commanders and fighters at all levels, they will be hanged with the epaulettes of the National Revolutionary Army Army.

Starting from the 10th, Ding Dafanpan, the logistics department chief of the 512th Brigade, took a hundred soldiers and began to set up a venue. A venue that could accommodate thousands of people was actually an open space adjacent to the river of the Whampoa Military Academy.

Although the venue and infrastructure are simple, the soldiers were very attentive when decorating it, including ribbons, balloons, red flowers and other decorations.

Ding Da Pang kept urging: "Everyone is working harder, be quicker, look at it now at 8 o'clock, and our ceremony will begin in less than 2 hours! Let's all be scattered!"

At this moment, all the hundreds of Eighth Route Army soldiers were working hard, holding their tools and constantly cleaning the ground to make the ground level and tight. Even if the strong wind blows, they must ensure that there is no trace of dust coming.

"Brother Abacus, you are not at ease with us brothers doing things!"

"That's right, isn't it just a simple venue? Just rest assured that even if you build a building, we brothers will not be timid!"

"Old Zhang is right!"

"Don't talk nonsense. Today is the big day of our trip. Who would have to hold back and let others laugh at me? I don't have to do anything about it. Brother, please tell me how I will clean up you?"

Today's grand event was the top priority for the 512th Brigade before leaving Guangzhou.

Although a few soldiers complained a few times, they were just jokes, and their movements were no slower than anyone else.

Everyone knows that today's promotion and rank awarding ceremony were not only attended by the 512th Brigade, but also representatives from various departments of the 12th Army, celebrities from both the political and business circles in Guangzhou, workers' representatives, farmers' representatives, and newspaper reporters from all over Guangdong, will also come.

Therefore, everyone attaches great importance to today's ceremony. This is no longer as simple as a ceremony, but has extremely high political propaganda significance.

Promote our party and our Eighth Route Army!

Promote the great cause of anti-Japanese war for the whole nation!

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The 12th Army General Headquarters.

Zeng Yangfu, the commander of Guangzhou City, looked at Commander-in-Chief Yu Hanmou with incredible eyes and frowned: "Chief, why don't you really want to attend the promotion ceremony of the 512th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army, right?"

"Of course I have to go, and I have to go with great fanfare!" Yu Hanmou said in a deep voice.

Upon hearing this, Zeng Yangfu was anxious, with a hint of anger in his words, and said, "General, don't you know the attitude of the Commissioner towards the 512th Brigade? The Commissioner is very afraid of the 512th Brigade and the Communist Party!"

"hehe!"

Yu Hanmou smiled and said, "How could I not know? According to the Commissioner's intention, it was impossible to set up the A-level Brigade of the 512 Brigade, and it was even more impossible to give them a brigade weapons and equipment in such a difficult situation in our country, but the Commissioner could not hold back!"

The 512th Brigade repelled the 106th Japanese Division, defended the three towns of Wuhan, and at the same time, in the battle of Luokouling, they fully planned the strategy and wiped out the 106th Japanese Division.

It is not an exaggeration to just give such military achievements to a local security brigade, not to mention the establishment of a Class A brigade or a division.

However, such a great military achievements were suppressed by Chairman Jiang.

In order to block the mouths of the Sichuan Army and the Wuhan people, we had to open a golden mouth and gave the 512th Brigade a local security brigade.

However, in the Guangzhou Battle, the 512th Brigade has successively fought bloody battles in Daya Bay, fought in Huizhou, and formulated a plan to siege and kill the 5th Division of the Japanese army, especially the Jixiangpo blocking battle, which even delayed 12,000 Japanese reinforcements from the 18th Division of the Japanese army, making great contributions to the complete annihilation of the 5th Division of the Japanese army.

It is no exaggeration to say that the 512th Brigade is the first hero in defending Guangdong!

Who doesn’t know about this series of things in Guangdong? Who doesn’t know about it?

Yu Hanmou smiled, "How can the commissioner convince the public if he has made merits or not?"

"hehe!"

Zeng Yangfu sneered and said, "Since you know, why are you still going? You are not making things difficult for the commissioner. If this matter reaches the commissioner's ears, you will inevitably scold him!"

He paused and said, "Along with that, the 512th Brigade is clearly going to be promoted to the A-class Brigade, but the Commission did not give them a new number, and it is still the 512th Brigade. Don't you understand what the Commission is meant?"

Yu Hanmou smiled and said, "How come I don't know what the commissioner means? It's just to warn the Communist Party and the Eighth Route Army, telling them who is the true leader of China and who is the true leader of China!

In a word, the commissioner will give them any staffing they want. This is completely a matter of the commissioner's decision!”

Zeng Yangfu smiled evilly and said, "Not only that, the number of the 512 Brigade remains unchanged. This shows that as long as the 512 Brigade fights against the Japanese army in the future, if there is any failure, even if it is a small loss of troops and generals, the commissioner can deprive them of their number at any time and pull them to the end. Even if their Communist Party makes a fuss, it will be useless."

"This is the cleverness of the Commissioner!"

As the commander of Guangzhou City and one of the three giants in Guangdong, Zeng Yangfu, others looked down on the Eighth Route Army. They hated the 512th Brigade and wanted to strangle them all to death.

Therefore, today, when we learned that Commander-in-Chief Yu Hanmou wanted to go to the 512th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army in person to attend their rank ceremony, we hurriedly came to dissuade us.

"Master, you must understand that if you go today, you will give the 512th Brigade, the Eighth Route Army, the Communist Party's propaganda, and the opportunity to make a big fuss. Therefore, you can't go today no matter what!"

Zeng Yangfu advised him earnestly.

For a moment, Commander-in-Chief Yu Hanmou also hesitated.

My heart is extremely uneasy.

Zeng Yangfu said again: "Master, according to my suggestion, we can just send someone to congratulate you, and it is also better to warn the 512th Brigade so that they will not be complacent."

"Then send Zhong Junfang." Yu Hanmou said helplessly.

Zeng Yangfu immediately retorted: "Zhong Junfang is also a major general brigade commander after all. Will this identity still increase the value of the Eighth Route Army?"

Yu Hanmou frowned and said, "Can we just send a colonel?"

"Colin?"

Zeng Yangfu waved his hand and sneered: "The Colonel went to congratulate him. It was all the cheapest of the Eighth Route Army. If I were to send a second lieutenant or lieutenant to me, just send me a second lieutenant and a second lieutenant!"

Suddenly, Yu Hanmou sighed and said, "Okay, it's up to your opinion!"

Zeng Yangfu said again: "Sir, there is another thing I want to tell you."

"What's up?"

"Didn't their 512 Brigade also invite many political, business people, celebrities, and many representatives from all walks of life to go?"

"Is this happening?"

"Hmph! The Eighth Route Army wants to be quite beautiful, and they also want to use this to enhance their political influence. Today, I, someone, must completely ruin this matter!"

"Isn't that good?"

"The chief executive, those who accomplish great things should not be careful of minorities and use any means. Besides, our actions are all for the Party and the State and the Commission!"

In the end, Yu Hanmou helpedlessly fully agreed with Zeng Yangfu's opinion.

Zeng Yangfu smiled secretly and said, "I'm here to see how embarrassing your promotion ceremony will be in the eyes of major newspapers? Haha!"
Chapter completed!