The rebirth of the Republic of China

After getting out of the car, Lu Yihua walked towards the courtyard.

At a glance, the courtyard is full of officers with heavy faces and hurried steps.Seeing Lu Yihua enter the door, the officers who were busy packing up the documents hurriedly stopped and saluted: "Commander."

Lu Yihua walked in while returning the gift, and now he has no intention of saying anything else.

When Liu Sheng came back, what he saw was this scene. Although not chaotic, the officers who were out of order walked upstairs and downstairs like chickens without their heads.His heart sank, he grabbed the arm of Zhao Rui who was walking towards him: "What's going on?"

Zhao Rui said in a low voice: "Last night, the Communist Army raided Jingmen, and 79 people from the 5000th Army were captured. The whereabouts of Fang Jing, the commander of the [-]th Army, is unknown." Immediately afterwards, he heard a gasp, and he continued, "Jing An ordered to retreat. ,Now……"

Liu Sheng didn't listen to Zhao Rui's words, let go of his arm and walked upstairs.

Zhao Rui hurriedly stopped him: "Wait, Jing'an is angry, don't let anyone disturb you."

"Angry?" Liu Sheng frowned, he always felt something was wrong.

"Yeah." Zhao Rui nodded, "When he came back just now, his expression was very strange. Apart from being cleaned up, he locked himself in the room without saying a word."

"how long it has been?"

"It's been a while." Zhao Rui replied.

Liu Sheng was a little embarrassed.Lu Yihua has a bad temper. Although she has excellent control over her emotions, she tends to vent her anger on others when she is furious.Hearing what Zhao Rui said, he really couldn't go up, or he might persuade something to happen.

Liu Sheng was still worried, Zhao Rui went to the side and poured him a glass of water.

When he first came to Lu Yihua's side, Zhao Rui was still a young man who was pure and aggressive but had some low self-esteem. It is conceivable that a person with such a personality would never be pleasing in the army, except for Lu Yihua who occasionally took his heart and came to talk sweetly to him. Besides, only Liu Sheng took care of him.

Slowly, Zhao Rui also learned to be indifferent.Later, he even sacrificed a lot for his beliefs, abruptly changed his personality, and turned his indifference into an even more unpleasant and defiant one, but obtained more information and even secrets.

Sometimes, bullying is the most effective method, although it is hated and despised by others.

The moment he turned around, Zhao Rui smiled mockingly, and immediately recovered his expression.

The hope of victory and imminent freedom made Zhao Rui's nerves a little more relaxed than before. He walked out with a mixed mood of irony, reluctance and joy, but he didn't notice the sight behind him.

Liu Sheng looked at the back of Zhao Rui leaving, and frowned.

The troops quickly retreated to the south bank, and the Communist army successfully crossed the river two months later.

In the newly established command post in Changde, Lu Yihua barely supported his aching body to listen to the battle report.At this time, the situation on the Yangtze River defense line was very bad. Once Jingmen was lost, the pressure on Lu Yihua increased a lot.

"Officer Bai has already begun to deploy the Jiang defense in the middle of the month, and ordered the Jiang defense troops from Chenglingji in Yueyang to Nanjin Pass in Yichang to be under your command."

After listening to this report, Lu Yihua raised his hand and pinched the sore corners of his eyes, and said, "For the time being, Deputy Commander Zhou will be in charge of the affairs of the command post."

Deputy Commander Zhou's name is Zhou Pan, and he is Lu Yihua's deputy.

At this time, Lu Yihua had been promoted to the second-level general of the army, and after the end of the Anti-Japanese War, he was appointed as the deputy commander-in-chief of Central China to suppress the Communist Party and the commander of the No. 14 Corps, under the command of the commander-in-chief Bai Chongxi.

However, it was soon discovered that Lu Yihua did not work very hard in this position, so it is not a problem for such a person to occupy the position and not work, so at the beginning of the year, Lu Yihua abdicated under the cue of Chongqing. .Of course, in such a special period, his headmaster would not really let him use it.While dismissing him, he was reappointed as the commander of appeasement in the Hu'e border area, and five months later he also served as the lieutenant general director of the appeasement office in the Sichuan, Hunan, and Hubei border areas.

This was considered a high position at the time.

"Where's Commander Chen?" The officer in charge of recording asked after Lu Yihua stopped talking halfway.

Lu Yihua was also thinking about this question.

At this time, apart from the troops under the command of Lu Yihua who were in charge of the river defense from Yichang to Haoxue, Chen Mingren's First Corps was responsible for the defense of the section from Haoxue to Chenglingji.

At this time, the First Corps has three newly programmed armies, and nearly half of their troops are used for defense, and the rest are stationed in Changsha, Liuyang and other places for reinforcement.

Thinking of this, Lu Yihua asked, "Is there any news from the commander-in-chief?"

This news was supposed to be reported later. When the officer heard Lu Yihua mention it suddenly, he went through it all in a flash. What he said was concise but detailed: "Mr. Bai just sent a message ordering the Second Army to move to Changsha. .”

This was something Lu Yihua hadn't thought of. He suddenly paused when he heard this, and barely reacted.

"Changsha?"

"Yes."

Lu Yihua couldn't sit still anymore, he got up and paced the room slowly, looking out the window.

I saw a large piece of burning clouds leaning against the sky in the evening, brilliant and warm, and a strong sense of powerlessness seemed to burst out of my chest in this evening when the sunset was in the sky.

"Commander?" The officer reminded.

Lu Yihua sighed: "Let Commander Chen withdraw from the line of defense." The officer was obviously taken aback, but Lu Yihua waved his hand again: "Go out."

"……Yes."

As early as half a month ago, Lu Yihua had already negotiated a battle plan with the commanders above the army commander, but after all, war is not a matter of one legion or two legions, it is a matter of all soldiers, and it affects the whole body.

The plan Lu Yihua came up with was to defend the south bank of the Yangtze River with the main force and try to prevent the Communist army from crossing the river; at the same time, to stay with strong troops on the two strongholds of Yichang and Shashi on the north bank, and never give up unless absolutely necessary.

Since Nanjing, Shanghai and other places have already fallen into the hands of the Communist Party, Lu Yihua has practiced this plan several times. Even if the Communist Party bypasses here and crosses the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, threatening his right-wing troops, he can still be commanded by Zhong Bin. The 14th Corps retreated to Shimen and Dayong.

This way the situation is much better.But this situation was completely destroyed by the Second Army's march into Changsha.Bai Chongxi is the commander-in-chief of suppressing the Communist Party in Central China. Not to mention being in the same system as Lu Yihua's department, he is in the same system. This person is also higher in rank than him. Regarding this matter, Lu Yihua can only send suggestions.

But he was really tired, and he had no intention of going around with these people.

Hearing the sound of the door closing, Lu Yihua walked slowly to the window and stood quietly looking at everything downstairs.Until Liu Sheng pushed the door and came in, he still maintained that posture.

After standing at the door for a while, Liu Sheng stepped in, gently closed the door, walked to Lu Yihua and stood beside him.

He followed Lu Yihua's line of sight and saw that there was a big tree. On the stone table under the big tree was a battle map. Several officers were talking around the map. From time to time, some people went up to write. draw.

They were too far away, and they couldn't hear anything clearly when they stood here, but occasionally a sentence or two with a loud voice floated over, and only a few words could be heard seriously.

Liu Sheng turned his head to look at Lu Yihua, and saw that his aura was much calmer than before.But this kind of peace made him even more worried, not as good as when he just retreated from Shashi, no matter how annoyed he was then at least he was angry.

"Worried about me?" Sensing Liu Sheng's gaze, Lu Yihua was startled when he turned his head to meet his eyes, and then asked with a smile.

Liu Sheng turned his head and continued to look out the window: "I——I want to ask you something." Lowering his eyelids, Liu Sheng covered the emotion in his eyes, trying to keep his tone normal, "I want to ask you something."

Staring at Liu Sheng's side face for a long while, Lu Yihua finally smiled, then turned around and sat down behind the desk without looking out the window, "Why is it so hard to ask?"

Without directly answering Lu Yihua's question, Liu Sheng was silent for a moment and instead looked for something else to ask: "After the Second Army moved to Changsha, Yichang's defense has weakened a lot. What do you think?"

Lu Yihua looked up at him, looking a bit puzzled: "How else can we see it? Our supplies originally came from Chongqing. If it weren't for these Sichuan grains, there would be a big problem for so many people, not to mention fighting. Even food would be a big problem after the war. It's a harvest shortage, and the famine along the Yellow River is even more serious—" At this point, Lu Yihua paused.

Knowing that he must have thought of the time when the Yellow River was bombed, Liu Sheng was also taken aback.

Lu Yihua continued: "Yichang is the throat of the upper reaches, and the situation is much more serious than Shashi. We must not lose it easily like Shashi. Otherwise, if the supply is difficult, the Yangtze River will be in danger."

Liu Sheng asked again: "Then can Yichang hold?"

Lu Yihua was startled, and subconsciously asked, "What do you mean?"

The contradiction in his heart was suddenly suppressed by Lu Yihua's question. Liu Sheng calmed down and said, "Look, it's still far away from the autumn harvest, and the Sichuan food we were counting on can't really help much. The supply of military rations is too tight, although there are [-] accumulated grains near Yangcheng, but there are too many victims, didn't you give the order to relieve the victims?"

"And Yuan'an—" Lu Yihua subconsciously refuted Liu Sheng's point of view, but even he couldn't continue talking.

Yes, no amount of stored food can withstand this kind of consumption.The army may be enough, but what about the victims?Do they really care?There were too many war victims during the Anti-Japanese War. Now that the Anti-Japanese War has been won, even if there is a civil war, Lu Yihua still wants to do something.

He is not a politician, he is a soldier.He exists to defend his family and the country, but because of the factors of the times, he is forced to do many things that he does not want.

Leaning back in the chair, Lu Yihua closed his eyes: "What do you want to say?" If by this time, he still doesn't understand that Liu Sheng's purpose of coming here is not to talk about the battle situation with him at all, then it would be too fake.

"After Mr. Qu..." Taking a breath, Liu Sheng spoke out his thoughts slowly, and told Lu Yihua after organizing his words after his consideration.

After the voice fell, the room suddenly fell into a palpitating silence.

Lu Yihua leaned on the chair with his head bowed and did not speak, the sunlight came in from the window, and the shadow half blocked by the curtains completely concealed his face.

A long time passed, until Liu Sheng thought that Lu Yihua was just sitting up and fell asleep, when Lu Yihua moved, he stretched out his hand to cover his eyes, and his voice became much hoarse in an instant.

He asked, "Why do you have such an idea?"

When the news of Lu Yihua's surrender reached Chongqing, his principal was talking about the future of the Kuomintang. When he heard this, he didn't quite believe it.However, when the news was confirmed, he fell silent almost instantly.

Along the way, he had reason to trust Lu Yihua.He knew him as a student. In Lu Yihua's heart, obedience to military orders had long been part of his blood, and differences between political parties were never in his consideration.Such a person, now—

This made the top leader of the Kuomintang instantly angry, and without even continuing the meeting, he reached out and swept his favorite tea set on the table-the word dead end has never been liked by people.

And Lu Yihua...

He still inevitably thought of Lu Yihua.

Today, his early student has "reaped the consequences", but he still thinks about it from time to time.

When he flew from Dinghai to Taiwan, he didn't even dare to go back this way because he was afraid that Sun Liren would attack him, and he was also worried about Chen Cheng, who was already the emperor in Taiwan at this time.

He thought over and over again, if he had directly let Lu Yihua come to Taiwan to guard instead of sending him to the mainland to fight a civil war, would his student not have rebelled, and his road to Taiwan would not have been the same as before. as difficult?Can't even believe it?

After all, this is just conjecture.

Lu Yihua had long since died, and the high spirits he had when he was in Huangpu also disappeared with the wind.

A war, a great drama in the world, after the ups and downs, how much is the regret of the past?