Rise from eight hundred.

Chapter 1457: Strong Murderous Intent

Although Commander Li did not come due to illness, the Lieutenant General Chief of Staff, as the third most important person in the war zone and Commander Li's confidant, came in person to accompany him, which also gave great face to the generals participating in the war.

The atmosphere at the banquet was not particularly warm, but there was laughter and joy, and even the major generals and brigadiers of the 67th Army clinked their glasses with the major general of the 70th Army, whom they looked down upon, and smiled at each other.

Even the major general of the 70th Army, who had previously been cold to Leng Feng, stood up with a smile and toasted the little-known Chief of Staff Leng Feng with a glass of wine.

When a general toasts a colonel, it is not just a matter of courtesy, but a matter of giving face.

However, this face was not given to Leng Feng and the Four-Line Regiment, but to several commanders in the war zone.

Although they are all soldiers and most of them are straightforward, to be promoted to the rank of major general, at least a hundred of them are cunning, if not all.

The reason why Commander Li held such a welcoming banquet at such a sensitive time was not as simple as forcing the 40th Division to retreat.

This must have been a factor in easing the emotions of the 67th Regiment and the th Army. Ever since the scale of the th Regiment's alert exceeded everyone's imagination, everyone present had an idea. When the Lieutenant General Chief of Staff arrived, although Leng Feng was the last one to greet him according to his rank, he was the only one to whom the Lieutenant General Chief of Staff gave a double-handed handshake.

This is a very complicated matter. There are 4 lieutenant generals and division commanders in the restaurant, and as many as 10 major generals. Some of the lieutenant general chiefs of staff shook hands with one hand, while most of them just raised their hands to return the greeting. Although their military ranks are not much different, he is a theater-level chief of staff and the difference in position is immeasurable, so he is naturally qualified.

As a result, Leng Feng, a small lieutenant colonel, received treatment that even a lieutenant general of the army did not receive, but the lieutenant general chief of staff held his hands warmly, and asked him about the current condition of his regiment commander Tang Dao with concern. He was very relieved to hear that Tang Dao could already take some simple liquid food.

At this point, not to mention those generals who were all smart, even those who were not smarter probably knew that this welcoming banquet was, to put it bluntly, held for Tang Tuanzuo, the commander of the Four Lines Regiment who was injured and could not come.

  This is just Commander Li telling Tang Dao in disguise that it is my fault for not giving you a reasonable explanation yet, so let me treat you to a drink!

For a theater commander, this is the best that can be done. He can't just call Tang Dao and say: There must be something fishy going on here, but my ability is limited and I can't handle it!

After all this fuss, everyone is just a guest. You say, if the Major General of the 70th Army, who has figured out the underlying reasons, still treats Leng Feng with the same attitude as before, then he must be out of his mind!

Although the 70th Army is the central army, they are now in the Fifth War Zone. If you offend Boss Li who is in charge of everything today, he won't do anything to you on the surface, but this is a dangerous battlefield. You never know when a military order will come down and the 70th Army will be standing on the most dangerous edge of the knife.

It was in this strange background that the originally unknown Lieutenant Colonel Leng Feng became the focus of attention among a group of major generals.

"Come! Come! I propose that we raise a glass to Chief of Staff Leng, and wish Captain Tang of the Fourth Line Regiment a speedy recovery, and hope that he will lead the Fourth Line Regiment to make new contributions under the command of Commander Li." The Major General Brigade Commander of the 70th Army raised his glass and said.

"I really like this blessing!" A major general from the General Staff echoed and raised his glass.

"Yes!" Major General Zhu also agreed concisely.

When the other major generals saw this, they had no choice but to follow suit, so they all raised their glasses.

"I will drink this glass of wine on behalf of our regimental commander." Leng Feng stood up, poured 10 glasses of wine into a large bowl according to the number of people, and then drank it in one gulp.

"Good! Chief of Staff Leng has a good alcohol tolerance!" The major generals applauded.

Hekou County is located in western Hubei. The cups in the restaurant are not the small 3-cent cups in Jiangnan. They weigh at least 8 cents. These 10 cups of wine weigh nearly one kilogram. Together with what he drank before, Leng Feng drank at least two kilograms.

  The originally dark face now showed a blush!

"The wine is so strong! This one sip feels like it burns directly into my heart." Leng Feng, with a flushed face, suddenly unbuttoned the discipline buttons of his military uniform and exhaled a strong breath of alcohol.

"However, no matter how strong the wine is, it is not as hot as the blood shed by the 13 brothers in my guard squad. Those 13 brothers did not die on the battlefield against the Japanese pirates, but fell on the land protected by hundreds of thousands of troops in my war zone. Sirs, do you think this is ironic?"

Leng Feng looked at a group of major generals with his eyes slightly red, so hot that people dared not look at him directly.

The originally warm atmosphere at the banquet suddenly froze.

After a long while, Major General Zhu finally advised: "Lieutenant Colonel Leng, the theater command is still investigating with the military police. I believe that the person behind the scenes will be found soon, and an explanation will be given to the brothers of the Four Lines Regiment and Captain Tang who died in the battle."

"Commander Zhu, you are a person that Captain Tang respects very much. Before he came here, he specifically mentioned you and said that you are a patriotic general. But can you tell me, can the person behind this really be found?" Leng Feng exhaled another strong breath of alcohol and asked directly.

Major General Zhu remained silent.

He knew very well that Commander Li had tried his best, but the Military Intelligence Bureau also intervened and quickly dismissed and held accountable the head of the Military Intelligence Bureau. All the key personnel were transferred away, and the Military Police Department could only watch these intelligence personnel who might know clues leave, and many clues were completely cut off.

Obviously, some people may know the truth, but they are not willing to let it come to light. The answer they gave was that senior Japanese spy lurking inside the war zone.

Now, although Leng Feng's question was a bit rude, what he was questioning might be the truth. Can the real person behind the scenes be found? There is a 90% chance that it cannot be found.

"So, commanders, do you think this is ironic? Is it funny?" Leng Feng's eyes were full of sarcasm.

"Lieutenant Colonel Leng, watch your words. This is the theater command headquarters. There are many superiors here. You cannot be presumptuous." Seeing that Leng Feng was getting more and more excessive under the influence of alcohol, the brigade commander of the 70th Army, Major General, turned cold and reprimanded.

Several major generals of the 67th Army frowned and looked at him with stern eyes.

They were very smart people. Leng Feng had said something inappropriate, but he was drunk after all, and it was a small group. As long as they persuaded and appeased him with gentle words, the incident could be treated as if it had never happened. But this guy suddenly jumped out and reprimanded him, which would stimulate Leng Feng to say something inappropriate again! This was clearly a trend of wanting to escalate and complicate the situation.

"70th Army, you are so arrogant. You old bastard have been looking down on me since I walked in. Do you think I can't feel it? Now you jump out and act like a big shot to me. I call you commander-in-chief because you have benefited from other commanders. Otherwise, with your wretched appearance, you come close to me. I didn't slap you because I am too well-mannered." Leng Feng looked coldly at the guy who jumped out to flirt with him.

Leng Feng has always been a man of few words and has always been a man of action. He would just do whatever he had to do. Even to his close comrades, they rarely heard him talk as much as he did today, let alone hear him speak so venomously to others.

But just because you haven't heard of it doesn't mean Chief of Staff Leng won't hear it.

The mastermind behind the scenes was originally pointed to be the 70th Army or even the people behind it. How could Leng Feng be polite to him?

The fact that he didn't use his fists directly was really the result of Chief of Staff Leng's repeated restraint.

Everyone was shocked!

The Major General of the 70th Army was scolded so much that his head was bleeding and his face was completely distorted.

  He never expected that the young lieutenant colonel in front of him would not follow the military rules at all and start to scold him like a shrew. What's going on? Does Leng Feng not want to continue in the army? Or is the Four-Line Regiment going to break up with the 70th Army?

No matter how heroic you, Tang Dao, are as the head of a regiment, you are only a small army colonel with only a few thousand men under your command. How can you compare with the 70th Army, which has two infantry divisions and three reserve regiments with more than 2 troops?

Even several major generals close to the Four-Line Regiment were collectively dumbfounded. They had never expected that the taciturn chief of staff of the regiment would be so tough and he started by scolding a major general brigadier general until he was bleeding.

They didn't like this cunning brigadier general, and they all felt happy when they saw him being scolded like a dog. But they felt happy verbally, but they couldn't escape the charge of insulting their superiors. With the strictness of Li's military discipline, it was probably a foregone conclusion that he would be dismissed and demoted. Tang Dao, who was still recovering from his injuries, might also be reprimanded for not being strict with his subordinates. This was really unwise!

"You, are so bold." The major general of the 70th Army slammed the table.

"Brother Haoran, calm down. Chief of Staff Leng must be drunk and he's talking nonsense." Seeing that the banquet was about to turn into a battlefield, the major general of the 11th Army Group quickly grabbed the major general of the 70th Army who was already blushing.

If they really came to a fight of fists and kicks, even if Leng Feng was drunk he would still stand as straight as a javelin. With that physique, it would be strange if he didn't beat this major general of the 70th Army with a protruding belly into a dog.

This person probably wasn't afraid of his colleagues being at a disadvantage, but the Lieutenant General Chief of Staff and several division commanders were still in the upstairs box. If they saw this scene, I'm afraid everyone present would be in trouble. For his own sake, he had to settle the dispute between the two.

"Yes! Chief of Staff Leng, you should give our commander some face and don't bother with some people. If you really want to fight, don't do it at the drinking table. You are soldiers after all! Either on the training ground or on the battlefield, we'll determine who's the better." The two major generals and brigadiers of the 67th Army also stood up to pull Leng Feng back.

It looked like he was trying to stop the fight, but his words made it clear that we are in the same group. I suggest you beat this guy into a pig's head on the training ground.

Well, the 67th Army was really firm in its stance and always stood on the side of the th Regiment. Several major generals of the army in the theater headquarters felt a headache and were a little bit at a loss for a moment.

At this moment, a man in plain clothes suddenly pushed open the door of the private room.

"Who are you? Get out!" The major general of the 70th Army was already extremely angry and ashamed, so he took out his anger directly on the person who broke in.

All those present were active military personnel. The lowest-ranking officer was Leng Feng, the chief of staff of a regiment. The rest were generals who could command thousands of men at least. How could a guy in plain clothes come here?

However, he ignored the fact that the expression of Major General Zhu beside him suddenly changed.

There were only a few guards in this restaurant, but the outside was heavily guarded. Not to mention that the 4th Regiment had heavy machine guns and mortars, even the theater command guard regiment had sent a guard company to completely block off the area around the restaurant. How could an ordinary person in plain clothes get in?

More importantly, he had seen this man in plain clothes at the headquarters.

That was the person in charge that the Military Control Commission had just sent to the Fifth War Zone.

His sudden appearance here must be bad.

"The last person who pointed at me and told me to get lost has already become food for the Yellow River carp. Brigade Commander Wu, right? I'll come find you after I finish my work." The man glanced sinisterly at the blushing Major General of the 70th Army. "By the way! My name is Zhao Lijun, and I'm the Administrative Inspector of Jingxiang. Next time you come to see Brigade Commander Wu, remember to tell me to get lost again."

  70 Army Major General Jun's face quickly turned from red to white!

Maybe he would not be afraid if a lieutenant general threatened him like this, but he was really afraid of the inspector general who took the initiative to give his name.

Major General Dai had four capable cadres who were highly valued by Dai Li. People with a curious mind called them the Four Vajras of the Military Control Commission.

One of them, Colonel Shen, was the captain of the detective team in Shancheng and got along well with Tang Dao. The man in front of him was one of the other three, nicknamed 'Zhui Ming Tai Sui'. Just from the nickname, you can tell that he is vicious and cruel.

But this guy named Zhao Lijun is actually more terrifying than his nickname. He just enjoys killing people.

Before the war, under his leadership, a large number of progressive people were slaughtered; after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, he was appointed as the major general training commissioner of the First War Zone and the administrative inspector of the Luoyang Special District. He was responsible for controlling the Yellow River ferry from Luoyang to Shanxi. Zhao Lijun used his power to extort and act recklessly at the ferry. If the masses resisted in the slightest, they would be beaten severely or pushed directly into the Yellow River.

Even Zhao Lijun did not let go of the Central Bureau of Investigation and Statistics agents who were carrying out undercover missions, which led to a fierce conflict between the Central Bureau of Investigation and the Military Bureau of Investigation and Statistics.

Because the Inspector General holds the "imperial sword" of inspection and supervision, even the commander of the First War Zone can do nothing about him and has to prevent himself from being caught by him.

In order to suppress this sudden incident in the Fifth War Zone, Major General Dai directly sent this guy who had just returned to the mountain city to the Fifth War Zone.

Seeing that the place was calmed down, Zhao Lijun looked around and cast his gaze towards Leng Feng, with a faint smile on his face: "This, I guess, is Brother Leng Feng from the Four Element Group!"

"My name is Leng Feng, but we are not familiar with each other, so please don't use the word 'brother'!" Leng Feng looked coldly at the man who was looking down at him.

"Haha, Chief of Staff Leng is indeed worthy of being a fierce general under Tang Dao. He has seen a lot of big scenes and even killed several Japanese lieutenant generals and major generals. Of course, you don't take me, a major general of the Military Control Commission, too seriously." Zhao Lijun chuckled.

"But, when you go to my place, maybe you will change your attitude."

"Why do you do that?" Leng Feng said coldly.

"Why? You, the Four Lines Group, don't even dare to admit what you did?" Zhao Lijun's eyes suddenly became sinister.

"The owner of the largest grain store in Miaotan Town went out drinking last night and did not return all night. When his family found him today, he was already a corpse, and all the guards who accompanied him were killed."

"What? Commissioner Zhao is going to investigate a homicide? I remember that this is not your responsibility, Commissioner Zhao!" Leng Feng's mouth curled up with a hint of sarcasm.

"It's okay for a grain store owner to die, but the courage of you, the Four Banks Group, is something that I, Zhao, have to admire!" Zhao Lijun's face became very ferocious at that moment.

"The major general of the 70rd Independent Brigade of the 33th Army received information about this vicious murder in the area where he was stationed, and he personally led the guard company to the scene. When returning at around 5 pm, he passed by Baihu Mountain and was ambushed. All members, including the major general, were killed in the battle."

As soon as these words were spoken, the entire private room was so quiet that one could hear a pin drop. Everyone opened their mouths involuntarily and looked at Leng Feng like idiots.

If this was really done by the Four Lines Group, then it must be crazy!

"This case is more serious than the last time my commander-in-chief investigated it, so Commissioner Zhao has to investigate it thoroughly. Thank you for your help." Leng Feng said calmly. "But if you want to save trouble and directly put the blame on our Four Columns, then our Four Columns will definitely not admit it."

"From the time the attack occurred to the time the 33rd Independent Brigade arrived to reinforce, it would not have taken more than 20 minutes. In 20 minutes, a well-equipped guard company was completely defeated. I want to ask, which army in the entire Fifth War Zone has such combat power? Except for your Fourth Line Regiment."

"We are all proud to receive such praise from Commissioner Zhao, but we can't just rely on our strong combat effectiveness! Is this considered a crime of possessing a treasure without any guilt? Is it possible that the commander of the 33rd Independent Brigade offended bandits somewhere, and was besieged by vicious bandits and lost his life?"

"It's okay if you, Chief of Staff Leng, want to deny it, but God can see that there was a squad leader in the 33rd Brigade's Guard Company who was seriously injured but survived the attack by these bandits. According to him, although the besiegers were all in civilian clothes, they were holding powerful semi-automatic rifles and used small-caliber mortars and rifle grenades. Apart from your Fourth Line Regiment, who in the entire Fifth War Zone is qualified to be equipped with such weapons?"

"I'm afraid that Commissioner Zhao has some misunderstandings about our Fourth Column Regiment. Although our Fourth Column Regiment has the weapons that Commissioner Zhao mentioned, I would like to make one point clear: since its establishment, our Fourth Column Regiment has relied on the determination of all officers and soldiers in the regiment to defend our country and fight the Japanese pirates to the death, not just relying on so-called sophisticated equipment.

In addition, in the attack on our Fourth Regiment 10 days ago, the Japanese also used Garand semi-automatic rifles and MP28 submachine guns. Do I have reason to suspect that it was a unit equipped with these guns that did this evil thing, such as the 70th Army?"

  Leng Feng turned his gaze towards the Major General of the 70th Army who was still stunned, his eyes filled with murderous intent!

The major general of the 70th Army only felt goose bumps on his arms. At that moment, he truly felt that Leng Feng really wanted to kill him. He was so scared that he quickly waved his hands and said, "My 107th Division is not qualified to equip this kind of weapon. There are less than 30 in the entire division!"

"I agree with this explanation!" Leng Feng nodded, and then looked at Zhao Lijun. "Commissioner Zhao, look, the misunderstanding has been resolved! We in the Four Element Group will never wrongly accuse a good person just because of some superficial evidence."

Before Zhao Lijun could reply, Leng Feng's somewhat eerie voice sounded again in the private room: "Of course, if we can find solid evidence, the lives of the 13 brothers in my Four Lines Group will be paid with blood, and even the gods can't save him.

Anyone who wants to help him will be killed as well."

A chill rose from the hearts of all the major generals present.

The murderous intent from the army lieutenant colonel in front of him was so strong that it seemed to be bursting out.

What he just said was almost a disguised admission that the incident with the 33rd Independent Brigade was done by the th Line Regiment. They responded to the attack with an attack, which was the ultimate way of "returning the favor in their own way".

(End of this chapter)