The lights in the main hall of the General Temple were bright and the atmosphere was warm. An Yi and his brothers looked at the piles of white flowers on the table, which totaled 47,500 yuan, and then looked at the temple door covered under a dozen large tarpaulins.
Boxes of guns and ammunition, his face full of unparalleled happiness.
An Yi looked at Gu Laoer, who was holding a half-smoked cigarette with a smile on his face: "Hutou, you have done a great job in recruiting more than 800 brothers. The recruitment fee of 5,000 yuan has been written off in one go. Considering the amount of money you brought,
All the brothers are good players. After selecting two hundred people, Xia Jian couldn't laugh from ear to ear. I will reward you with a thousand oceans today."
Gu Laoer didn't even look at Dayang on the table: "Boss, just keep it and write it down for me. If you save 10,000, you can ask Lao Chang to notify me."
All the brothers laughed and said that Gu Lao Er had a big appetite. An Yi knew what Gu Lao Er really meant, so he smiled and ordered Lao Chang to take out five bags modified from flour bags and fill each bag with one.
Qian Dayang was placed in front of Yang Bin, Ye Cheng, Lu Mingdi, Zhang Qigong and Qu Muchen:
"Five brothers, this is the promise I made in advance, and I will fulfill it now... don't talk, listen to me before you speak. The five brothers are all people with families and families. Your status is different now. Although each of you has
Everyone has a monthly salary of 120 yuan and a public subsidy ranging from 50 to 100 yuan, but currently they are unable to send it home. The next step is going to be a tough battle. This kind of making and sharing money
There are not many opportunities left, so please be sure to accept it. Every brother here has a copy according to his position, so don’t mind it.”
Yang Bin and the other five had no choice but to accept it gratefully. They were puzzled when they saw An Yi instructing Lao Chang, Shi Lejun and other military logistics brothers to bring in several sturdy ammunition boxes and put all the remaining oceans into the boxes and carry them away.
Muttering to each other for a while.
An Yi explained that because the other brothers here had no families, they all entrusted the munitions department to take care of the supplies as needed. Only then did Yang Bin and the others feel relieved to accept them. They truly felt An Yi's integrity and generosity.
Xia Jian heard the noise at the gate and ran out quickly. He saw more than two hundred officers and soldiers from the guard company, machine gun company, and mortar company lifting the tarpaulin. Under the command of the quartermaster Shi Lejun and the ordnance director Shen Jianping, Tao Xun and other brothers, they carried the tarpaulin.
He took away all the mortars and dozens of brand-new light and heavy machine guns, and ran into the hall in a hurry, shouting: "Brother, how can this be done? How can all the equipment of our fourth battalion be divided?"
An Yi motioned him to sit down: "It's not like you don't understand that guns and artillery need to be tested and calibrated. Besides, almost all of your mortar platoons are recruits. How can they fight without training? You will allocate your own machine gun platoon to them tomorrow."
The regiment headquarters is directly under the mortar company. Let them detach a platoon to carry four guns and directly join your four battalions. Wouldn't it be easier for you to slowly expand and train them? The same goes for the machine gunners. Let the machine gun company send a group of non-commissioned officers.
Each of your four battalions has been re-elected as squad leader and deputy squad leader. When the time comes, you will go with the adjusted machine guns. You only need to fill up the number of people.
As for a thousand new German-made rifles and two hundred fancy machine guns, do you, a battalion of several hundred people, want to swallow them all? Can you afford them? You have to let the instructors of the guard company and the training team select the best guns from them.
After that, we will allocate them according to your actual needs. After all the fighting in our group, we only have more than 200 fancy machine guns left. Do you want to be equipped with 200? Even if I agree, you have to ask the brothers here.
Do you agree or not?"
The brothers laughed loudly, and Xia Jian also giggled sheepishly.
Yin Jinan then explained to everyone one by one how to allocate weapons and equipment, how to complete the deployment of the military backbone of the company and platoon as soon as possible, and how to form combat effectiveness as soon as possible. Yin Jinan's accurate calculations and a series of ingenious and shrewd methods impressed all the lieutenants present.
The meticulous and experienced Ye Cheng said with admiration that the Xia Jian Fourth Battalion was almost the same as the model camp. It was a replica of the model camp except that it did not have two engineering companies. The entire battalion only needed half a month.
After intensive training, you can definitely take to the battlefield!
For the first time, Yang Bin and others experienced Yin Jinan's superb operational planning and meticulous and rigorous style, and finally understood the important reason why Yin Jinan was irreplaceable in the original model camp and today's supplementary group.
On the morning of the next day, the supplementary regiment, which closed the camp gate, began intense training. After a morning of careful adjustments, the fourth battalion of Xia Jian took on a new look. The entire camp was pulled to the wide open area of the river bend behind Jiangjun Ridge to begin rigorous training.
Gu Laoer and Wu Liheng led the guard company, which had expanded to 350 people, to the mountains 20 kilometers away to the northwest. They needed to conduct internal training and brutal elimination competition in three days. The 30 victors
The six people will be transferred to An Yi and Hu Hu, and the instructor team composed of An Yi and Hu Hu will personally teach more advanced combat concepts, special skills, various tactical coordination and other special operations knowledge.
Compared with others, An Yi seemed extremely leisurely. He led Lao Chang, who had greatly improved his marksmanship, and dozens of support staff to the small shooting range northwest of Jiangjun Ridge to practice shooting. Among them, the young doctor and Shi Lejun were the most devoted and serious in their training.
, one harbors unavenged revenge for killing his father, and the other has a disability in his right hand and is full of firm determination to be self-reliant and self-reliant. Under An Yi's guidance, the two of them practiced most seriously and the hardest.
At four o'clock in the afternoon, the color of the sky and the earth changed, the north wind howled, and the first heavy snow of the year fell without warning.
Thick plain silver coating.
In a manor beside the Ruo River fifteen miles north of Wuning City, a simple and elegant octagonal pavilion stands quietly under several tall century-old cypress trees. There is a small square table in the pavilion, and the small charcoal stove on the square table emits yellow-red light.
Under the warm flame, there is boiled seabass filled with aroma and steam in the beautifully shaped small copper pot with a wide mouth. Several delicate side dishes are placed on the table. Two dignified generals are sitting on both sides of the square table, and they are happily enjoying themselves.
He picked up the porcelain cup, touched it lightly, and drank it all.
The young general on the right put down his cup, coughed twice and then flushed, obviously too drunk. The stocky general on the left, with a strong nose and wide mouth, laughed:
"Jiansheng, you are still the same as when you and I first met for a drink in Yulin four years ago. Your face turns red after one sip of wine, haha! This is Ji Kuan (Huang Shaohong, now the acting chairman of Guangxi Province, the latter seven
The Guilin Sanhua Wine was specially sent by the Army Commander. It is a fine product that has been stored for twenty years. Even in Guangxi, ordinary people would not be able to take a sip."
Bai Chongxi drank less than half a bowl of fish soup to calm down, put down the small bowl and sighed with a smile:
"My little brother is not blessed to enjoy it. I remember that when I was a boy, my classmates came to visit me. I hosted a banquet for me. After a few drinks, I fell unconscious and fell asleep for half a day. When I woke up, my mother was holding fine wine in her hands and giving her solemn teachings. My little brother was frightened and afraid of guilt. From that time on,
I stopped drinking. Alas... just a snap of the fingers! Four years ago, my elder brother lived in a corner of southern Guangxi. My younger brother and brother Ji Kuan were busy looking for a place to live. In the end, the two armies merged into one and were wiped out within two years.
Bagui, until this spring when the troops marched out of Xiaoxiang to fight for victory, everything is still vivid in my mind, just like yesterday! If not for the high regard of Commander-in-Chief Chiang and Ren Gong (Li Jishen, then Chief of Staff of the National Revolutionary Army), who insisted on retaining their younger brother in
At the headquarters of the Northern Expeditionary Army, I will definitely be able to fight on the battlefield with my elder brother and the Bagui soldiers, and make China famous!"
Li Zongren laughed loudly: "Jian Sheng has become famous now. Who among our troops in the Northern Expedition does not know that the plans for major battles in the headquarters are all made by Jian Sheng? The skill of strategizing and winning a victory thousands of miles away is not comparable to that of a reckless man who charges into battle.
?Jiansheng, please don’t be self-effacing, haha! Besides, isn’t it great now? Your arrival today has made our army officers and soldiers extremely happy and morale-boosted! One million rounds of ammunition and one hundred thousand yuan are what our army urgently needs.
The weapons are like help in times of need, and there are also twelve French mortars with nearly a thousand shells, making our army even more powerful!"
"Brother, I'm a little confused. After our army entered Jiangxi, we captured many Lien Zhan and Lianjie troops. We have more than enough equipment with 6,000 soldiers and horses. Why are we only short of artillery and mortars?" Bai Chongxi asked in confusion.
Li Zongren finished his drink and put down his glass: "It's funny. The first time we captured De'an, we captured countless weapons. During the evacuation, due to the lack of draft horses, our brothers had a hard time dragging the artillery, so they ordered the engineers to dig deep pits and capture all the more than 20 artillery pieces.
They were buried on the Wangjiapu front line, and they were covered with withered grass and leaves in a hurry. Unexpectedly, during the attack on Wangjiapu, the opponent actually dug up all these artillery pieces, wiped them clean, and then fired at our army. Waiting for our army
They bravely conquered Wangjiapu and found that all the artillery abandoned by the enemy had been destroyed. Before the enemy escaped, they blew up the gun bolts and firing locks, making them unusable. Our generals watched as more than 30 guns were abandoned.
Iron, helpless and resentful."
Seeing Bai Chongxi's dumbfounded laughter, Li Zongren couldn't help but smile, and said with regret: "This battle at Wangjiapu was second only to De'an in terms of tragedy, especially in the battle of Raspberry Mountain that morning, our soldiers
We suffered heavy losses under the various mortar attacks from the enemy's condescending position. I went to the front line to observe and ordered the 8th Brigade to cut between the two enemy mountains and then attack with all my strength. Wang Jun, acting commander of the 1st Army and 1st Division, led two regiments
Fresh troops arrived and launched a flank attack to form a pincer attack with our army. The two armies worked together to capture Raspberry Mountain and end the battle. However, one of the enemy's battalions was still able to escape back to Ruichang carrying seven or eight mortars.
After the war, I carefully summarized and found that if the enemy did not spread out the eight mortars, but concentrated them to cover the narrow passage in the middle, our army would not be able to attack anyway. It can be seen that the use of mortars is a new topic and is worth exploring.
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"Someone in the Central Corps has taken the lead in using it, and the effect is amazing. He changed the past practice of distributing mortars to various infantry companies and concentrated the twelve mortars originally belonging to three infantry companies to form a single equipment.
The mortar company of forty-five pack horses, taking advantage of the mortar's large firepower, long range, and ability to move quickly and launch quickly, defeated the sudden attack of Deng Ruzhuo's brigade in the rout of the Nanchang siege half a month ago.
After the war, I personally went to the battlefield for careful inspection and found that their first salvo of eight rounds resulted in the astonishing achievement of annihilating more than 300 enemy people. Then the second launch of the mortar company drove back the opponent again.
The second attack, and at the same time as the third launch, more than 200 warriors under this man actually launched a countercharge at the impact point of the artillery shells, defeating Deng Ruzhuo's elite brigade in one fell swoop, and cutting off its brigade commander in half, thus annihilating the enemy.
It was a great victory for more than a thousand men and the seizure of thousands of weapons, but under the overall rout, Commander-in-Chief Chiang was too embarrassed to praise him so much, otherwise it would definitely shock the whole army." Bai Chongxi sighed slightly after saying this.
Li Zongren widened his eyes and asked in surprise: "Who is this person? Could it be that he is a general under Cheng Songyun (Cheng Qian)?"
Bai Chongxi smiled slightly: "No, this person is An Yi, the model battalion commander who is famous in the army."
Li Zongren was shocked: "Is he the baby battalion commander who graduated from the Huangpu Engineering Department who took the lead in reforming engineer training?"
"Brother, don't underestimate this An Yi. In my opinion, this person is really a rare talent that comes once in a century. He has solid skills and a wide range of interests. I chatted with the generals from various departments in the headquarters and learned that An Yi has not been officially promoted to the highest level while he was in school.
As a formal student, he has already completed the military course by himself, and then taught himself infantry, artillery, surveying, riding and other majors. He is open-minded and diligent and asks questions when he doesn't understand. He is favored by Huangpu and the instructors in various subjects, and they all teach him everything.
He was so tireless that even the Russian engineer instructor Hulin and the shooting instructor Lyushenkov regarded him as their proud disciple.
What's even more rare is that this person does not stick to the rules but is flexible and changeable. Looking at the large and small battles he has participated in since the Northern Expedition, he has always achieved the maximum results at the minimum cost. His precise calculations and efficient battles are very impressive when looking at the current military situation.
There is no one like him. I dare to say that in three to five years, this person will be an outstanding general in the Huangpu system, and the army under his command will become the most effective ace unit in the hands of Commander-in-Chief Chiang Kai-shek."
After Bai Chongxi finished speaking, admiration and admiration appeared in his eyes.
Li Zongren was silent. He knew that his chief of staff, Bai Chongxi, had an arrogant character and a very high vision. He had never looked down upon the Huangpu student who rushed to the battlefield after only attending the military academy for a few months. He could be praised so much by Bai Chongxi.
Definitely not something that belongs in a pool.
Li Zongren suddenly recalled the Jiang defense concerns mentioned to him by Hu Zongduo, the brigade commander under Wuchang City. He remembered that Hu Zongduo also mentioned An Yi's name at that time; and after the battle of Tingsi Bridge, the Fourth Army generals Huang Qixiang and Zhang Fakui praised An Yi.
, as well as Tang Shengzhi's admiration for An Yi during the banquet, and his hatred for his stupid subordinate who went to court with An Yi for a village woman...all of this together made Li Zongren immediately realize that he had ignored An Yi.
It also ignores the rapid growth of heroes in each army during the war.
Snowflakes were still falling, and the guards came up and carefully added charcoal, then slowly poured a glass of wine for the two generals, and then quietly retreated.
When Bai Chongxi saw Li Zongren raising his head, he smiled again and asked in a low voice: "Brother, do you know how Liu Jingfu (Liu Zhi) and Lianjie fought in the Fengxin Campaign and Commander-in-Chief Chiang Kai-shek was so proud of him?"
"Liu Jingfu has a generous nature. Although he doesn't speak much, he is a rare tiger general. This person has a high degree of obedience like a pure soldier. He is never afraid of his opponents when fighting. He will move forward even though he knows the dangers. With how many people the Second Division had at that time,
Judging from the strength of nearly ten thousand people, attacking Fengxin City is not within his reach." Li Zongren replied thoughtfully.
Bai Chongxi shook his head, and then started the siege battle of the Second Division in the Shuozi Valley east of Liuyang, where they made a lot of money, followed by the Battle of Shangfu and then the critical battle of Fengxin City, and then briefly commented:
"...It can be said that the very smart battle of Shangfu has annihilated one of the main brigade of Fengxin. In the following battle of Fengxin, there were only more than 2,000 enemy defenders left in the city. However, Liu Jingfu fought very hard, and in the end he still
It was An Yi who led his troops to break through the city first. An Yi himself, who had not recovered from his shoulder injury but was leading the charge, was also shot through his waist and abdomen in this battle.
Although the Second Division rarely disclosed the details of this battle, according to my younger brother's speculation, all the strategies must be related to An Yi. First of all, since An Yi led his troops to the city first, the plan to break the city should have come from An Yi, otherwise it would be impossible to understand that An Yi was good at fighting.
The calculating An Yi will go to attack the city as the engineer battalion commander when the main force group still has absolute combat effectiveness. Secondly, An Yi has a powerful guard company under his command, with more than 130 people in the company.
With unique skills and incomparable bravery, it is no exaggeration to call him a dead soldier. On the night of the Nanchang rout, it was this company and hundreds of veterans from each company in the model camp who launched a counterattack without fear of death, chasing their own mortar fire and Deng Ruzhuo.
The third charge of more than 2,000 troops went towards them. In the end, the color of the sky and the earth turned pale, ghosts cried and wolves howled, and more than a thousand enemy troops were killed. The remaining enemy troops were frightened and fled frantically as if encountering a fierce ghost. They even broke up and Deng Ruzhuo sent out reinforcements.
The reinforcements were so frightened that they hid in the city and closed the city gates tightly. They did not dare to leave the city for three days in a row."
Li Zongren looked at Bai Chongxi in shock. When Bai Chongxi nodded slightly, he sighed leisurely: "It's a pity that such a wise and brave general is not part of my possession... Jiansheng, can you make a little effort to make An Yi's troops on the way to the Northern Expedition?"
Fight alongside my Seventh Army?"
Bai Chongxi thought for a long time, and finally nodded and replied in a low voice: "It is feasible. After Jiangxi is cleared, all the troops will turn around and go north. The current preliminary intention is that after the First Army He Jingzhi (He Yingqin)'s East Route Army captures Fuzhou, it will go north to eastern Zhejiang. The First Army
The First Division and the Second Division will pass through Shangrao and push towards southwest Zhejiang. The two armies plan to converge on the Tonglu line. The increasingly large divisions of the First Army cannot be easily commanded by He Jingzhi. Liu Jingfu himself was defeated due to the attack on Nanchang, and he was defeated the next day.
He Jingzhi, who took the blame and resigned as acting army commander and commanded many surrendered troops of the Eastern Route Army, which was about to be reorganized into two armies and one division, was once again appointed commander of one army as the commander-in-chief of the Eastern Route Army. This would probably make General Chiang Kai-shek
The commander has to personally take command, otherwise he will have to send his younger brother to do it for him. Once the younger brother takes office, the matter will be easy."
"Haha! Very exciting!"
Li Zongren drank another drink with satisfaction, put down the cup gently, and sighed: "When the Northern Expedition arrived in Changsha, the General Political Department sent more than 170 graduates of the fourth phase of Huangpu to train in our army.
In other words, there are some scholars who are humble and courteous in their conduct, and there are those who are ignorant and have low skills but think they are the pride of heaven. They often get into trouble over trivial matters, which annoys the generals below. They have complained to me many times and suggested that these Huangpu
It’s a dilemma for me to send him back alive! But there are not even half of them like An Yi, which is really dumbfounding!”
Bai Chongxi frowned slightly, and after thinking for a moment, he knew what Li Zongren meant:
"Brother, this matter must not be rushed. Wait until Jiangxi is cleared and then send the people back in the name of reorganization. Otherwise, it will be used as an excuse to exclude dissidents. Also, An Yi is a person who attaches great importance to friendship. He gets along with all Huangpu students.
We are very harmonious, especially with the seniors from the first and second periods and the classmates from the fourth period. They are like brothers.
While chatting a few days ago, I heard that Commander-in-Chief Chiang Kai-shek personally ordered Zeng, an aide who graduated from the first batch, to add An Yi's name to the list of directors of the "Whampoa Alumni Association".
You’ll know it if you think about it carefully.”
"Understood!"
Li Zongren leaned over and picked up Bai Chongxi's bowl, happily served Bai Chongxi with a piece of plump fish lips, and then filled up half a bowl of delicious fish soup stewed into a milky white color.