Chapter 240: Military Council (2)
The special surname of the Guard Division of the National Army makes it hardly have much intersection with other units of the Nationalist Army, even if it is a battle, the Guard Division is to undertake operations in one direction alone, rather than carrying out joint operations with other troops, which can be reflected from the war in southern Jiangsu. The Guards Division was a division that alone undertook the task of crossing the river.
In addition, the officers in the guard division are all related to Chen Jingyun, so that many generals of the national army look down on them, jokingly calling them relatives of the emperor and the country, and the contradictions are getting bigger and bigger as time goes by.
Yu Ruofei is the same, in this huge conference room, he is the only one who is the guard division, when they were discussing before, because there was no part of the guard division, so he never spoke, but now he heard Lin Zhaomin's suggestion to postpone the attack on Nanjing, which made Yu Ruofei unable to sit still.
Yu Ruofei didn't care about the eyes of several people around him looking at him, and then said: "At present, our guard division has gathered the main force in Jiejiazhuang to resist the enemy's seventh division, and the enemy army has taken a strong attack day and night in order to counterattack Nanjing, and our department has been fighting fiercely for a long time, with heavy casualties, and it is very difficult to face the main force of the enemy's seventh division!" ”
Speaking of this, although Yu Ruofei was very reluctant, he had to speak: "The guard division hopes that the friendly forces on the south bank can conquer the south bank of Nanjing as soon as possible, and then reinforce our division!" ”
Of course, there is another reason why he did not say, that is, if the Nationalist Army carried out the southern city of Nanjing on a large scale, it would be best if it could take it down and eliminate Cao Kun's subordinates, even if it could not be eliminated, but at least it could create huge pressure on Cao Kun, and then Cao Kun was very likely to abandon the city and flee west into Anhui. As long as Cao Kun enters Anhui, then the Seventh Division of the Beiyang Army will have no reason to continue to storm Jiejiazhuang, and the crisis of the guard division will be solved.
After Yu Ruofei finished speaking, Sun Guangliang, the chief of the logistics department on the side, spoke: "Everyone, it is necessary for the logistics department to remind you once again that at present, our army's ammunition inventory has reached a dangerous level, and in the previous offensive, the ammunition consumption of various units has once again broken the record!" Before I came, I already reported to the commander that starting tomorrow, there will be a limited supply of ammunition to each unit! ”
This decision had been informed to everyone before, although the generals of the army were extremely dissatisfied, and it is said that Ma Cheng at the front even sent a telegram to scold Sun Guangliang for being a despicable villain with the intention of disgusting fighters. But that's the way it is, and these generals have to accept it if they don't accept it.
At this time, Liang Xunqin waved his hand and said: "Chief Sun, rest assured, when the Operations Department formulated the plan, it had already made corresponding modifications according to the ammunition inventory data provided by the Logistics Department!" ”
Sun Guangliang said at this time: "Bad news, but here I can also give you good news, we said, 'The 20,000 rounds of artillery shells ordered by this urgent order will arrive in five days, and it will greatly alleviate the shortage of artillery shells for our army at that time!'" In addition, the Logistics Department has urgently dispatched the 79-pointed bullets stored by the 3rd Division in Guangzhou to rush to Shanghai, and the shortage of machine gun ammunition in various units will also be alleviated to a certain extent! ”
In order to solve the problem of the shortage of ammunition for the Nationalist Army, in addition to urgently ordering medium- and large-caliber artillery shells from the United States and the United States, the Nationalist Army restricted the use of 79-pointed bullets for the Type 12 rifles that were widely used in the Nationalist Army, and changed to the use of 79-round bullets, which the Nationalist Army had a large number of stocks. Although the surname can be lower, there will be no shortage of rifle bullets. In addition to the Fuzhou Arsenal working in a hurry to expand production overnight, the Logistics Department could only draw ammunition from the stocks of other units of the Nationalist Army, not only from the Fifth Division in Fujian and the Sixth Division in Jinhua, but also from the Third Division in Guangzhou.
Even so, the problem of ammunition shortage is difficult to solve.
After more than an hour, the guard division demanded that the rest of the troops deal with the troops on the south bank of Nanjing as soon as possible, while the logistics department asked the troops to save ammunition, and the troops on the front line on the south bank of Nanjing asked for valuable rest time and a large supply of ammunition.
All kinds of requirements were combined here, and then after various trade-offs, finally Yuan Fang and Liang Xunqin of the Operations Division put forward a new plan according to the previous plan, planning to launch a preliminary attack by the second division with less consumption and losses in the previous operation, delaying the Beiyang Army to build a defensive position, and during this time, the first division, the fourth division and the seventh division will take a short period of rest, using this time, the logistics department will send the urgently needed ammunition supply to the front line, and the staff department will also organize relevant transportation forces, The more than 3,000 troops that were about to arrive in Shanghai for reinforcements were replenished to the subordinate units.
The more than 3,000 troops who came to Shanghai this time were different from the past, and the previous reinforcements were all recruits who had been trained in the training camp for three months, but the war in southern Jiangsu was extremely fierce, and the Nationalist Army had already allocated tens of thousands of recruits to supplement it, and almost all the recruits of the Nationalist Army were evacuated. Under such circumstances, in order to replenish and reinforce the troops on the front line in southern Jiangsu, the General Staff Department directly transferred ready-made troops to replenish them, such as from the Fifth Division, the Third Division, and then the Eighth Division and the Ninth Division, which are being formed and trained, and the Sixth Division stationed in Jinhua.
In order to maintain the combat effectiveness of the troops that have come with reinforcements, it is necessary to transfer the entire battalion and the entire battalion, and then the vacancy of the original troops will be supplemented by the recruits sent by the subsequent new battalions.
Of course, such a redeployment of the original unit will greatly reduce the combat effectiveness of the original troops, but the pressure on other units is not great, and the important surnames of the war in southern Jiangsu make it impossible for those staff officers in the staff headquarters to manage so much.
This time the reinforcements came with five infantry battalions and a heavy machine-gun company, drawn from the 3rd, 5th, and 8th Divisions respectively.
"According to this plan, we will launch a general offensive on November 28th!" Yuan Fang said and sat down again.
At this time, Chen Jingyun looked around and said slowly: "Since the outbreak of the war in southern Jiangsu for more than a month, all the gentlemen, whether they are on the front line or in the rear, have been fighting for the victory of our national army, and the former chief of staff Feng Qin died of illness because of the fatigue of the night!" Tens of thousands of soldiers have fought hard for more than a month, and we have achieved today's advantage, and the sacrifices of tens of thousands of soldiers have brought about today's situation. I want to tell you that everything you have done in this war is not only for yourself or for me, but that what you are doing today is not only related to the victory of our national army, not only to your future, but also to the rejuvenation of our Chinese nation and the rise of China. In such turbulent times, I am very happy to be able to work with you! ”
After this long military meeting, the generals did not leave immediately, but stayed to attend the luncheon invited by Chen Jingyun.
A large group of people divided into two large round tables and did it, because everyone was on official business, among which Shen Gang and Lin Zhaomin and other generals had to take the train back to the front line in the afternoon, so this wine can't be drunk more, but all the people present are big men, and they are all soldiers, this wine can't be said without drinking, so everyone has drunk a little bit, but they are all extremely restrained.
Between eating and drinking, Chen Jingyun also put down the stinky shelf in Pingyu, and ate and drank with the large group of generals under him very refreshingly, and even made two fists, and was stunned to be poured down two glasses of wine.
After a meal and drink, this large group of lieutenant generals and major generals left one after another, Shen Gang and Li Jimin and several other generals who came back from the front line went straight to the train station, and then prepared to make a train back to the front line, while the rest of the generals who had no urgent affairs were leisurely and did their own things, some did office work, some were ready to go home for private meetings, and some went to social banquets and the like, and so on.
And Chen Jingyun also went upstairs after eating and drinking, and when he was about to accompany Dong Bai's, he found Dong Bai's mother in the room, and the mother and daughter were talking, and Chen Jingyun was not good at going in directly. Dong Bai's mother just arrived yesterday, the Bai family was not a big family before, this Mrs. Bai is also a typical woman, after seeing Chen Jingyun, she was very restrained, and she didn't even dare to take a breath of air, for fear that Chen Jingyun would turn her face and shoot her ruthlessly the next moment, after such a while, Chen Jingyun also tried to avoid seeing her, he didn't care about himself, but it was not a very cool thing to always make this old woman nervous and frightened, so avoid it if you can.
went downstairs and entered the study, when Chen Jingyun was about to deal with other affairs, Yu Shifeng said that Sa Zhenbing and Cheng Biguang asked to see him.
"Didn't they just leave? How did you come back again? Chen Jingyun wondered, and immediately let the two of them in.
"Commander!" After Sa Zhenbing and Cheng Biguang came in, they first gave a standard military salute, and then approached.
"Did you eat well?" Chen Jingyun asked casually: "I remember that you two have eaten a lot!" ”
Cheng Biguang also chuckled: "The chef's skills in the commander's mansion are very profound, although this is the second time I have tried the food in the commander's mansion, but I still eat too little, next time I will be hungry all day in advance and come back to eat, so I can eat more!" ”
"Hehe, if you like it, just come and eat it tomorrow!" Chen Jingyun smiled and then glanced at Sa Zhenbing: "But you are coming back now, I'm afraid it shouldn't be for another meal with me!" ”
Sa Zhenbing said: "This is naturally not, this time I came mainly for some affairs of the naval cooperation plan." Because I'm going back to Fuzhou tomorrow, this time is a little tight, so I'm here today! ”
"Oh?" Chen Jingyun nodded while motioning for Sa Zhenbing to continue.
Sa Zhenbing continued: "At noon, the Navy Department received a telegram from Yu Wentao from the United States, saying that it has held many talks with the American side, and has formulated a preliminary shipbuilding plan. ”