Chapter 98: Zhang Shaoxun Visits (Part 2)

  In the living room, Zhang Shaozheng was sitting quietly, thinking about how to speak when he saw Gao Yang later. Everyone is about the same age, but Gao Yang is a person who is on an equal footing with his own father! Should I use equal courtesy? Or should I show junior courtesy?

  Just as Zhang Shaoxun was hesitating, the door of the living room was opened. Zhang Shaoxun looked up at the doorway and saw a tall figure walking in.

  A tailored marshal uniform, shiny high-top riding boots on his feet, a straight and upright posture, although there was a faint smile on his face, the aura of a superior still gave people a sense of overwhelming pressure.

  Zhang Shaoxiao swallowed his saliva and stood up, although Gao Yang's aura was overwhelming, but Zhang Shaoxiao's strong sense of self-respect forced him to stand up and face Gao Yang head-on.

  Gao Yang's mouth corners slightly curved upwards, with a hint of a smile on his face as he walked up to Zhang Shuai and said with a gentle laugh, "I was wondering why the magpies outside were chirping non-stop today. Turns out it's because a noble guest has arrived! Han Ying, I've long heard of your great name!"

  Zhang Shao-shuai was taken aback, a hint of unnaturalness flashed across his face, but he immediately put on a smile and said lightly: "General Gao, I came to congratulate you on behalf of my father for your successful suppression of the rebel Lu Xiao-jia. Here are some special products from the Northeast, please accept them as a token of our goodwill."

  After finishing speaking, he turned his head and winked at the deputy officer. The deputy officer held up a beautifully packaged box with both hands and took a few steps forward to hand it over to Gao Yang.

  Zhang Shao-shuai smiled and said, "They're all some local specialties from the Northeast. My father said that even if Du Jun were as rich as a country, there's nothing good to send, so he let my younger brother bring some ginseng and bear paws and whatnot. It's just a humble gift, not worth much."

  "Haha, you're too kind, thank you so much for the thoughtful gift, General Zhang." Gaoyang smiled and accepted the gift, handing it over to Gaofeng behind him.

  "Come, come, please sit down." Gaoyang invited Zhang Shao to take a seat. The guard brought up tea and water, Gaoyang sat in the main seat, took a light sip of tea, looked at Zhang Shao with a smile and said: "Han Ying, when did you arrive in Magic City? Have you been walking around and taking a look?"

  Zhang Shaozhai put down his teacup and smiled lightly, saying "Returning to the Commander, yesterday I just arrived in Magic City and haven't had a chance to walk around yet."

  Gao Yang waved his hand with a smile and said, "Han Ying ah. We're not much different in age, so don't call me 'General' all the time, just use my courtesy name."

  Zhang Shao's face flashed a hint of unnaturalness, and he opened his mouth to say, "Han Ying, what virtue or ability do you have that dares to be on equal terms with the Governor? It's really laughable."

  Gao Yang shook his head slightly and said, "Han Ying, you're wrong. You're a young general, already famous throughout the land at such a young age. It's I who has benefited from our friendship."

  Zhang Shao's face turned slightly red. Gao Yang's words made him extremely embarrassed. Although he was very proud, the gap between himself and Gao Yang was not ordinary. Unwilling to entangle with this topic again, he hastily said "Then I'll take my leave, Brother Zi Hou."

  "Hmm, Han Qing, you didn't come just to give gifts this time, did you?" Gao Yang leaned back in his chair, crossing his legs and asking with a light smile.

  Zhang Shao-shuai sat up straight, with a military demeanor. Upon hearing this, he nodded lightly and replied, "Brother Zi-hou, in the past, there was a misunderstanding between the Zhenwei Army and your army. My father has sent me to apologize."

  Gao Yang smiled and waved his hand, saying "What's the point of bringing up this small matter? It's already in the past, let it go. I've long admired Zhang Dashuai too."

  Zhang Shao-shuai thanked him repeatedly, paused for a moment, and then said: "Brother Zi-hou, my father also asked me to pass on a message. My father wants to ask what High Commander Gao thinks about the current domestic political situation? Does High Commander Gao have any intention of leading his army northwards and drinking from the Yellow River?" After finishing speaking, he stared tightly at Gao Yang!

  This is his main purpose for coming this time, Zhang Dashi is worried that Gao Yang will lead the army to march north and enter Beidu, and the Fengjun has not yet made preparations to contend with Gao Yang!

  Gao Yang slightly lowered his head. He rubbed his chin, stretched out his fingers and lightly tapped on the table, remaining silent. The atmosphere in the room immediately became heavy.

  Zhang Shao's hand clenched involuntarily, his eyes becoming increasingly serious. If Gao Yang had the intention of going north to Beiping and directly entering the central government, that would be a brutal war no less intense than the Zhili-Fengtian War!

  After a while, Gao Yang stopped knocking and looked up at Zhang Shao with a faint smile, saying "Not for the time being."

  Zhang Shaozhai let out a light breath. Immediately afterwards, he became tense again. What about in the future? He asked impatiently, "What about later?"

  Gao Yang smiled and shook his head, chuckling as he said, "Han Ying, do you think that even if I gave you a guarantee now saying I wouldn't go north, would you believe me?"

  Zhang Shaozhai was stunned, is that right? Even if Gao Yang says he won't go north now. Can I believe it myself? Will my father believe it?

  Looking at Zhang Shao's entangled face, Gao Yang said lightly, "At least not within a year!" Of course, it won't be this year. Guo will make his move against Feng soon, and watching the battle from the sidelines is what Gao Yang likes to do.

  Gao Yang stood up and smiled, saying "Han Ying, don't think too much. You rarely come to Magic City, take a good look around, if there's anything difficult, just come find me, let me fulfill my duty as host."

  Zhang Shao-shuai also knew that official business was over, and he could only reluctantly stand up to bid farewell. Gao Yang looked at Zhang Shao-shuai leaving, his eyes flickering, wondering what he was thinking about. "Keep a close eye on him." "Yes, sir."

  In the following days, Gao Yang's life was simple yet fulfilling. He usually spent his days handling official business in Demon Capital and returned to modern times to date Zheng Xiujing at night. He rested at night in modern times.

  This morning, Gao Yang had just started handling official business in the Garrison Command when Wekes came in with a document.

  "Colonel, the attack plan has been finalized. Please review it." Wekes handed the file in his hand to Gao Yang.

  Gaoyang carefully opened the file and began to read it, Weixi stood quietly beside him, occasionally answering Gaoyang's questions. About an hour later, Gaoyang closed the file, nodded slightly and said "Let's begin then."

  The Shanghai Concession, the Peace Hotel. Yesterday evening, Zhang Shaoxiao, who had been playing at the Great World Club until dawn, was awakened by a sudden knock on the door. The pain of his hangover made Zhang Shaoxiao shake his head fiercely, and he got up to open the door. His deputy rushed into the room in a hurry.

  Looking at his anxious deputy officer, Zhang Shaoxun yawned and asked, "What's wrong? Why so flustered? Has my dad arrived?"

  "Colonel! I just received the news this morning, the Sixth Division is gathering on a large scale! Without hiding their intentions, all roads out of the city have started military control, and so has the railway!"

  "Where?" Zhang Shao's still somewhat dizzy head immediately cleared up, his face changed greatly as he hastily asked "Where are we gathering? The north?"

  "No, it's south," replied the deputy officer.

  Zhang Shaoshuai visibly breathed a sigh of relief, scratched his head and said "The south? Is it Sun Chuanfang?"

  On the same day at noon, Lu Gongzi, the former Zhejiang governor who had been silent for some time, suddenly issued a nationwide telegram, admitting his own behavior of colluding with the Japanese and selling out national interests. In the telegram, Lu Gongzi expressed his remorse in a tone of tears and asked for forgiveness from everyone. He also stated that he would go abroad for inspection.

  The commander-in-chief of the Fujian-Gan Joint Army, Sun Chuanfang, also saw this telegram. Commander Sun was not interested in the nonsense throughout the telegram, he stared at one sentence "Conspire with the commander-in-chief of the Fujian-Gan Joint Army, Sun Chuanfang!"

  Commander Sun, furious and trembling all over, smashed all the tea cups in his office to pieces! In a fit of rage, he bellowed: "Gao Yang! You son of a bitch! Your greed will be your downfall, I'll bury you!"

  As an old hand, Commander Sun saw through Gao Yang's small trick at a glance. This telegram was just an excuse for Gao Yang to deal with himself!

  He was so angry for another reason, that recently he had just sent someone to deliver a gift to Gao Yang as a gesture of goodwill. But after receiving the gift, Gao Yang immediately turned against him and attacked! Eighty million yuan, all gone down the drain like that. And it was something he had taken the initiative to send over himself! Commander Sun was so angry that he almost couldn't catch his breath.

  After yelling at the gift-giving subordinate and slapping more than a dozen loud slaps, the depression in his heart was slightly relieved. He tore open the wind button, loudly ordering all high-ranking military officers to come to a meeting immediately!

  At this time, the vanguard of the Sixth Division, which was riding in trucks, had already passed Hangzhou and was heading towards Wenzhou. The entire highway was filled with a dense convoy of trucks, with dust kicked up by the wheels blocking out the sun.

  Gao Yang planned to deal with the notorious 25th Division Commander Sun before Guo's rebellion against Feng. The entire Sixth Division, except for the garrison troops, was dispatched by Gao Yang. At the same time, all naval vessels had set sail and were escorting a fleet of cargo ships carrying an entire brigade of marines and large quantities of food and ammunition towards Wenzhou and Xiamen!

  For this battle, Gao Yang delayed the army's reorganization work. Even Zhang Xinghai, who was preparing to be kicked back to the military academy, stayed behind as a deputy platoon leader to participate in this battle.

  In the headquarters of the garrison command, General Zhang was having tea with Gao Yang.

  "Zi Hou brother, my brothers want to go to the front line to observe your department's heroic battle, I wonder if it is possible..." Zhang Shao said with a flattering tone.

  Gao Yang glanced at him, with a smile hanging from the corner of his mouth, and said lightly: "En. Han Qing is indeed a tiger son of the Jiang family, can't sit still when he hears that there's going to be a fight, haha."

  "Haha, yeah, I've been suffocating in this Magic Capital for the past few days. We military men are still more comfortable on the battlefield." Zhang Shaoxiao said with a smile, but his words carried a hint of helplessness and embarrassment.

  Zhang Shao-shuai, of course, did not proactively want to go to the front line. It was after his father received a report from Gao Yang preparing to take action against Sun Chuan-fang that he directly ordered him to follow Gao Yang's troops to the front line to assess their combat effectiveness!

  Zhang Shao's thoughts were clear to Gao Yang, and Zhang Shao had made a detailed report of everything he had done in the past few days. This young marshal spent every day drinking, dancing, and playing with women, not going to bed until dawn. As for us military men, although Gao Yang concealed it well, the thick disdain in his eyes made Zhang Shao feel like he was sitting on pins and needles.

  Gao Yang's attitude towards the Feng army is to leave them until last! Let the Feng army hold off the Japanese and polar bears in the north, Gao Yang can then sweep through the rest of the places. Finally, he will head north with a big momentum!

  Gao Yang readily agreed to Zhang Shuai's request, allowing him to accompany the Sixth Division south as a military observer. As for being observed by him on the combat effectiveness of the troops, Gao Yang didn't care at all. It was no longer time to hide his strength! What Gao Yang needed now was to show off his muscles! To display his own powerful strength!

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