Chapter 74: Sitting in a row, dividing the cake
As a brigade commander at the age of 21? His military rank was directly promoted from major to colonel. According to Ouyang Yun's qualifications, it was really mismatched. After the 29th Army entered Hebei, it was already necessary to expand. At the peak of history, the 29th Army had reached the organization of 48 regiments, which means there were 48 regiment commanders. There were many famous generals and powerful generals among these people (the 29th Army seemed to be rich in this, which may be related to the fact that the veteran General Feng Yuxiang was the founder of the Northwest Army. As traditional Chinese soldiers, they paid more attention to loyalty, righteousness, benevolence, courage and trustworthiness. In history, such as Zhang Zizhong, Feng Zhi'an, Zhao Dengyu, Ji Xingwen, etc., they always held high the banner of the Northwest Army because of the traditional concept of
(Support), Ouyang Yun, as an outsider, had no military experience. With some strange skills and tricks, he ascended to the high position. Not to mention disobeying the public, he even felt that this official was a bit of a joke. The independent brigade was named brigade, but in fact, it belonged to the division level. The brigade commander was equivalent to the division commander. When he was 21 years old, he was truly unprecedented and had no future generations (except for some special circumstances). The higher the climb, the worse it fell. He had no real person in the 29th Army, and the power he could rely on was too thin. In the eyes of the public, he had to do anything like walking on thin ice. Any mistake he accidentally made was definitely a threat to thousands of people.
Li Tieshu, Gu Lianyun and Ouyang Yun all realized this. For Ouyang Yun, it is naturally a good thing to be able to master the army a little more, but the posture still needs to be done-
So at the 29th Army military meeting, which he described as a cake the next day, when Song Zheyuan read out the appointment in public, he once again expressed his lack of strength and hoped that the military throne could reconsider it.
It's interesting to say that at this meeting, except for Ouyang Yun, who was a colonel, the other one with the lowest military rank was also a major general. It can be said to be a grand event with generals gathering.
Among the generals, only Feng Zhian had seen Ouyang Yun, but he came very late. Before the meeting, the others looked at Ouyang Yun holding a notebook, asking for a signature, and pouring a cup of tea for that. With his military rank and major, they thought he was a staff officer or an adjutant of the military throne, but no one thought that he might be one of the participants. When Guo Biao announced the beginning of the meeting, everyone saw that he was sitting in the last seat, and a few of them were indeed very good and could not help but stared at them, saying that this kid was so ignorant? What did he get involved in when we were in a meeting? Secretary? Then he should be at the table!
There were a few people who knew the news, such as Feng Zhian and Zhang Zizhong. The former knew Ouyang Yun, and the latter only then realized that this little officer who admired him was one of the most popular "anti-Japanese heroes" nowadays. The commander of the academic corps was about to be promoted to brigade commander. He couldn't help but look at him more and judge that the other party was not over 25 years old. He shook his head secretly, thinking that the military throne was really a bit nonsense, and this was obviously a big child! He handed over the army of nearly 10,000 people to him? Xuanhu! He was sighing secretly, and Song Zheyuan and Qin Dechun walked into the conference room.
Everyone stood up at the same time, saluted and shouted, "Military seat! Deputy Military seat!" "I have seen Military seat, Deputy Military seat."
Song Zheyuan waved his hand with a smile and said, "Everyone should sit." He sat in the first place by himself, and when Qin Dechun also sat down, he swept across everyone's faces with a smiling gaze, then pointed to Ouyang Yun and said, "Ouyang, you are the new face here, let me introduce myself."
Ouyang Yun stood up and gave a beautiful military salute: "Yes!" He said: "I'm down, Ouyang Yun, now the acting leader of the School Corps. Please give me some advice!" After that, he raised his hand, turned his upper body and saluted everyone.
Song Zheyuan said: "What the acting regiment commander? From today on, you are the colonel brigade commander of the Independent Brigade of the Military Learning Army. Come on, let me introduce you to all the generals." As he said that, he began to introduce them one by one from his left hand.
"Deputy Commander Lieutenant General Qin Dechun, our 29th Army's think tank." Qin Dechun is a tall and thin man. He smiled and nodded to Ouyang Yun. Ouyang Yun immediately saluted him and said, "I have met Deputy Commander Qin."
Song Zheyuan pointed to a middle-aged man with two sword eyebrows on his right hand and said, "Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Zhang Weifan." Ouyang Yun immediately saluted Zhang Weifan and said, "Please give me some advice!" Zhang Weifan nodded slightly.
Next is Zhang Zizhong and Feng Zhian...
Except for Qin Dechun, who appeared last with Song Zheyuan, the generals here all got their signatures, and they had already met them. Song Zheyuan's words to correct Ouyang Yun were shocking, and many people felt incredible. Song Zheyuan had just introduced everyone, and Zhang Zizhong took the lead in attacking and asked Ouyang Yun: "Braft Commander Ouyang, Gui Geng this year?"
Ouyang Yun honestly answered: "21."
"Huh!" Now, let alone Zhang Zizhong who asked questions, others, including Zhang Weifan, were stunned. Zhang Weifan woke up first. He looked at the expressions of his old comrades, then looked at Song Zheyuan. Seeing that he had been smiling, he coughed and said, "Are you too young? He hasn't been the commander of the regiment for a long time, in terms of his experience in leading troops..." He didn't finish his words, but the meaning was already very obvious. If Ouyang Yun, a little guy, an outsider, was the brigade commander, the many old qualified regiment commanders in the 29th Army would definitely have opinions - it would be difficult to convince the public after one sentence!
Before he could finish his words, Song Zheyuan looked at everyone and asked, "Do you know the predecessor of the Student Corps? The student training class of the 25th Division had only more than 200 people, but under the leadership of the Commander Ouyang, these more than 200 people had wiped out more than 400 Japanese devils. Once, the Japanese attacked the Student Corps' station in Tianjin. That time, all the Japanese soldiers involved were Meijin's elite military police. The second time in Wancun, Shi Yousan and the Japanese wanted to have something to do with the Peking Autonomy.
If he was ambushed by Commander Ouyang, more than 2,700 people, more than 200 Japanese devils were wiped out, and Shi Yousan was also captured alive. In the two battles, the casualties of the Cultivator Corps were only single digits. Everyone, Shi Yousan, wouldn’t they not know him? He is also a veteran of our Northwest Army, but he is actually vulnerable in front of Commander Ouyang? As long as he can lead troops on the battlefield, know strategy, and be able to command soldiers, at this age and experience, he will be the president!”
Except for Feng Zhian, Qin Dechun knew about these things, and no one else knew about them. After hearing what Song Zheyuan said, his eyes at Ouyang Yun changed - more than 200 people, single-digit casualties, wiped out more than 400 Japanese devils, captured Shi Yousan alive, and they would not be sure that they could be beaten like this. This "two anti-Japanese heroes" are really well-deserved!
Zhang Weifan sighed and leaned on the chair and said, "Young people are so terrifying!" He turned to Song Zheyuan and said, "Congratulations to the military throne, my 29th Army has another powerful general!"
After he said this, it was hard for others to say anything else, and Ouyang Yun's appointment was calmly settled.
After a while, Song Zheyuan said: "Brothers, when he was reorganized by Young Marshal Zhang, did you ever think that our 29th Army would have such a day?!"
When the 29th Army first formed the army, it was undoubtedly the most difficult period for the troops. When everyone thought of the embarrassment at that time, and when they think about the current scenery, they couldn't help but sigh.
Zhang Zizhong said: "Yes! Since Zhang followed Mr. Feng on the road of revolution, he has experienced no less than a hundred major and large wars, but his days in Shanxi were the most cowardly. Unexpectedly, we also have the glory of today - now we have more than 50,000 soldiers, and finally there is no need to rely on others to live a life."
All the generals expressed their opinions, and the atmosphere in the conference room became unprecedentedly warm.
Song Zheyuan seemed in a good mood. After almost everyone spoke, he waved his hand and said, "Everyone seems to be very optimistic about the future prospects, but I want to remind you that our army has only obtained the name of the garrison of Hebei. There is still a lot of work to be done to turn Hebei into our army's source of troops and land. After the National Government withdrew from the entire territory of Hebei, many local government departments were left with only an empty stand, which required a large number of people to make up for. In addition, have you noticed that our army currently has the name of Yicha and the two places, but in fact it is only a large part - please look at the map -"
Guo Biao pulled open the curtain behind Song Zheyuan, and a brand new map of North China was presented to everyone. Song Zheyuan took the map and began to explain the current situation in North China point by point.
"Please see, Chadong and Yidong are nominally demilitarized zones, but the Japanese have aircraft that can carry out air strikes. In addition, their army is very mechanized, and these areas have developed railway and road traffic. If a war occurs, I am sure that they can only cross these areas and launch direct attacks on the areas we control - so this demilitarized zone is actually targeting our 29th Army..."
The map is very intuitive, and Song Zheyuan did not explain it. Those present can see that although the 29th Army now controls a large area of territory, if they fight with the Japanese, it will be a situation where they are attacked from three sides - the navy in Tianjin, the army in Rehe Yidong and the army in Chadong. Their retreat seems to have two roads, Shanxi and Shandong, but Shandong is the territory of Han Fuqu. Han Fuqu has no human and military skills, but he is very close to his own territory. Crossing the border with Shanxi? The 29th Army drove from Shanxi and has some understanding of the character of Yan Xishan, the old thing. The worst thing is, once Yicha is lost, where can the 29th Army go?
Chapter completed!