When Zhong Yi, Yu Liangzhen and He Wenxi drove to Zhaobaoshan Fortress, Li Ziren, the leader of the Seventh Regiment stationed at the fortress, had already brought his adjutant Zhang Yuanfan and others at the gate.

Li Ziren accidentally learned that Zhang Yuanfan was Zhong Yi's brother-in-law, so he immediately asked Zhang Yuanfan from He Wenxi and asked Zhang Yuanfan to be his captain and adjutant.

Zhong Yi did not stop Li Ziren's little thoughts.

Zhong Yi could also understand Li Ziren's anxiety, because among the ten commanders of the Zhejiang East China Sea Defense Corps, Yang Ruifu and others were all from regular soldiers, only him, Zhen Yongmeng, Cao Guolin, and Bao Dafu were from the former Yinjiang Security Division, but the situation of Zhen Yongmeng and others was different from that of him.

Cao Guolin is Cao Ziying's confidant, so Cao Guolin doesn't have to worry about not being able to sit firmly at the position of the leader.

Bao Dafu is the commander of the artillery regiment, and no one can replace him. Although Zhen Yongmeng has no support, Zhong Yi has never shy away from his appreciation of Zhen Yongmeng, so he can firmly take the position of commander.

On the surface, Li Ziren is the most dangerous.

It is precisely because of this that Li Ziren thought of using Zhang Yuanfan to appease him implicitly.

But in fact, Li Ziren's move was completely over-thinking because Zhong Yi would not replace people easily.

In Zhong Yi's opinion, Li Ziren is a man of average ability and has a bad background, but he has one of the biggest advantages, that is, he does not engage in feudal patriarchal system.

No one in the National Army, whether it is the Central Army or the local army, does not have a patriarchal system!

The so-called patriarchal system means treating the army as a family. The head of the family is the parents of this family. No one is allowed to disobey. Whoever dares to disobey will either kick it out or kill it!

It is precisely because of this that the national army has large and small hills.

Zhong Yi did not want the Zhejiang East Coast Defense Corps to have big and small hills, so he reused Li Ziren in an extraordinary way. In fact, if it weren't for Li Ziren's qualifications that were too shallow, Zhong Yi would even directly appoint him as the captain of the Third Detachment, which was the number one main detachment of the Marine Defense Corps that Zhong Yi expected!

Although Zhong Yi gave three thousand of the more than 5,000 veterans, plus half of the more than 1,000 trainees, to the second detachment, and even the four most qualified militia groups in the militia group, Zhong Yi actually valued the third detachment more, because the group of cadres from our party who came to the New Fourth Army were all in the third detachment.

These words are very long, but they are actually just a change of thought.

"General, General Secretary, Director He." Li Ziren stepped forward to greet him.

Yu Liangzhen replied with a smile and said, "Captain Li, you have to be polite."

"General, Director He is here to ask for it." After Li Ziren said that, he turned around to lead the way.

Yu Liangzhen and He Wenxi followed, but Zhong Yi deliberately lagged behind a few steps and walked with Zhang Yuanfan.

"Yuanfan, when you arrive at the combat unit, it's different from when you are in the training class." Zhong Yi said, "You can show your personality in the training class, but after you get off the army, you should forget the word personality. The army does not need personality, or even personal will, but only a collective will."

"Brother-in-law, I understand." Zhang Yuanfan said.

"Do you really understand?" Zhong Yi turned around and looked at Zhang Yuanfan seriously.

It was not until this time that Zhong Yi discovered that his brother-in-law's face had already faded from his childishness, and replaced it with a kind of heroic spirit from the inside out and thriving heroic spirit.

"Brother-in-law, I understand." Zhang Yuanfan said, "I even know why the regiment commander asked me to be an adjutant. Don't worry, I will not act as a domineering force in the army under your name. After a while, I will find a way to go to the front-line troops and strive to start from the grassroots deputy platoon leader."

Zhong Yi nodded happily.

It seems that Zhang Yuanfan has really grown up.

After thinking about it, Zhong Yi said in a low voice: "If you encounter problems, please ask the veterans, especially those of the 61st Division. They were all from the 19th Route Army. They participated in the 128th Shanghai War and the 18th Shanghai Battle and the 13th Shanghai Battle. Their combat experience can be said to be extremely rich."

The veterans Zhong Yi mentioned are cadres of our party who came from the New Fourth Army.

Military cadres of our party must not enter the Coast Defense Corps as an open identity, so they have to forge an identity, which is a veteran of the 61st Division.

The predecessor of the Sixty-first Division was the 19th Route Army, and it has a deep connection with our party.

Moreover, the group of cadres selected by the New Fourth Army did indeed have those from the 19th Route Army.

Of course, the most important thing is that the 61st Division has been defeated in the Battle of Songhu and its numbers have been withdrawn.

Therefore, this group of military cadres of our party, who pretended to be veterans of the 61st Division, is not easy to be exposed.

Zhong Yi's move is actually to hope that Zhang Yuanfan will have more contact with our party's cadres and then embark on the road of revolution, so that he will have another comrade.

Zhang Yuan and Fan Zheng pointed out: "I will humbly ask those veterans for advice."

Seeing that Zhang Yuanfan was so humble, Zhong Yi stopped saying anything, but patted him on the shoulder, then took a few steps to catch up with Yu Liangzhen and Li Ziren.

After a while, Yu Liangzhen arrived at the top of the mountain accompanied by Zhong Yi and others.

Standing on the top of Zhaobao Mountain, you can see the Yinjiangkou in front of you at a glance, and there are also various ships passing by.

Yu Liangzhen saw several Japanese warships flying the Sunrise Flag on the distant sea at a glance.

Judging from the tonnage, these should be several 10,000-ton cruisers. I saw that the naval guns of these cruisers were aimed at the direction of Zhaobaoshan Fortress.

Suddenly, a thick cloud of smoke suddenly rose from the muzzle of the naval gun.

Seeing this, Yu Liangzhen suddenly felt a sudden stern and instinctively wanted to hide.

Yu Liangzhen's new adjutant even called the chief officer to be careful and flashed to block Yu Liangzhen.

Zhong Yi, Li Ziren and even Zhang Yuanfan were unmoved at all, and their bodies did not move for a moment.

"Don't worry," said Li Ziren, "We are absolutely safe in the direction. Because of the obstruction of the mountain, the Japanese naval gun shells cannot hit this point."

As soon as he finished speaking, more than a dozen shells had hit the mountain in front.

"Boom..." The ground was trembling slightly in the huge explosion.

But as Li Ziren said, the observation post where they were was unscathed.

Yu Liangzhen breathed a sigh of relief and asked again: "Does the Japanese warships often come to Yinjiangkou to harass you?"

Li Ziren replied: "We often came when we first started building Zhaobaoshan Fortress, but after we built the intercepting mine formation, the Japanese warships rarely came. But yesterday, the Japanese warships suddenly came again, and there were quite a few, and they were like crazy that we were bombarded Zhaobaoshan and Jinjishan Fortress."
Chapter completed!