When a fierce battle was going on in Hangzhou, Chen Jingyun, who was far away in Fuzhou, had also been paying close attention to the Hangzhou side, and when he learned that the 1st Regiment of the Guard Division had broken through the enemy's position on the morning of the 23rd, he finally relieved himself after worrying for many days. As long as the enemy's defense line is broken, then ammunition and other materials can be sent to the position of the 13th Regiment, and the 13th Regiment can be directly reinforced. And it can be relied on to completely turn the tide of the war.

Sure enough, in the afternoon, Lin Zhaomin once again sent a battle report, the front-line troops had defeated the enemy's Sixth Brigade, the enemy suffered heavy casualties, captured many enemy troops, and the detailed results were still being counted.

Hearing this news, all the officers and soldiers in the headquarters showed joy, and some even cheered loudly!

"In this battle, the troops of the guard division can be regarded as in the limelight!" Feng smiled and congratulated Lin Chengkun: "Brother Lin, the guard division you brought out with this hand is worthy of being the personal guard of the governor!" ”

Lin Chengkun said with a smile: "There, it was all fought by the gang below, and the first division fought well, without the help of their 12th regiment, I am afraid that my regiment alone will not be able to break through the defense line of the Zhejiang army!" ”

Having said that, Lin Chengkun was still full of satisfaction. Although he did not personally command the first regiment of the guard division sent this time, the guard division was established by him Lin Chengkun from beginning to end, and all kinds of training were presided over by him, and the officer corps of the guard division sent out this time was basically from the guard division system. As for Yu Ruofei's ability and background, everyone knows it.

This time, the first regiment of the guard division made a great contribution, and although Yu Ruofei could get a point, he was also indispensable to Lin Chengkun. Not to mention anything else, but the four words 'well-trained' will never be able to run.

Since there is merit, it should be rewarded. It is unlikely that high-ranking soldiers like Lin Zhaomin and Yuan Fang will have a military rank for this battle, but the middle-level officers below will be greatly rewarded.

According to the battle report from the front, Chen Jingyun informed the whole army that night that Xu Jingqing, the commander of the 13th Regiment, was promoted to the rank of colonel, and the commander of the first regiment of the guard division was also promoted to the colonel military academy, making these two people the only two colonel commanders in the national army, and several other battalion companies were promoted to the rank of colonel. Among them, he also personally approved Shi Fengjun, a sergeant of the 13th Regiment Machine Gun Company, to be a lieutenant and serve as the deputy company commander of the regiment's machine gun company.

For ordinary soldiers, before the war, the whole army had been ordered: the participating troops will be issued war subsidies, this time Chen Jingyun once again announced that on the basis of the war subsidies, the troops participating in the war will be paid another month's military salary to encourage soldiers!

Yuan Fang, Lin Zhaomin, and other high-ranking military officers sent telegrams of commendation.

After Chen Jingyun's telegram of commendation was sent, the morale of the front-line troops was greatly boosted! In these years, everyone's consciousness is not too high, and officers such as Xu Jingqing and others, for the sake of the future and future wealth, Chen Jingyun has to give him a promotion to the military rank, and then promote him in the future. As for ordinary soldiers, what they want is very simple, that is, to get a few more salaries to support their families.

In fact, the military salaries of the Nationalist Army are not too high compared with those of Beiyang, and the only difference is that the Nationalist Army rarely withholds the salaries of soldiers, and all of them are paid by the Fuzhou Bank, and the commander-in-chief of the army has no chance to interfere at all. Of course, it is still a cut above other warlord forces in the country.

When Chen Jingyun's telegram of commendation spread throughout the army, the soldiers of the first division on the front line also showed a rare smile!

"I used to hear those members of the National Socialist Party say that we are good governors, but I still don't believe it, but now I know that the governors really remember us!" Some of the soldiers who were stunned by the few dollars of money said this.

Some are a little more rational: "We won the battle for the governor, and he can't express it!" Besides, just a few dollars to go to the yard a few times will be gone, and the benefits really have to be from the Shi Fengjun of the 13th regiment. Niang Xipi, this person must have smoked from the grave of his ancestors, he used to be just a non-commissioned officer, and he got a lieutenant after a fight, and I heard that it was specially approved by the governor! ”

"You say Lao Shi, I know that person, or a fellow villager, but don't say it, the feng shui of his family's ancestral tomb is well recognized, and there have been fortune tellers who said that this person must be developed before the age of thirty! Isn't that going to work? "The party of relatives and friends is on the scene.

"Actually, it's not just Shi Fengjun, I heard that in our first division, there are dozens of officers who have been directly promoted from us non-commissioned officers in the past few days!" A corporal also showed envy on his face, and muttered in his heart.

Who wouldn't want to be an officer! When I first joined the army, I was a private, so I wanted to be a private, and then I thought about being a non-commissioned officer, and after I really became a corporal, I thought about a sergeant, and then after I became a sergeant, I remembered every day that I would be able to be appreciated by my superiors, so I stepped into the ranks of officers, wearing bullish leather shoes, handsome officer dresses, white gloves, a six-shot pistol pinned to my waist, and an officer command knife.

A group of soldiers and non-commissioned officers envied those who became officers, while those middle-level officers were staring at the colonel on Xu Jingqing's shoulder one by one.

Although Xu Jingqing, who had just come down from the No. 8 Heights, was tired, he had a smile on his face, and he was also quite useful for the envy of his colleagues.

said on his lips: "Du Du Gao just looked at me Xu, I don't dare to be it" or something like that, but in my heart I secretly despised them: Lao Tzu was besieged in Hongbei Mountain for many days, and he was born and died to earn this rank of colonel, why are you red-eyed!

Despise is contempt, modesty is modest, Xu Jingqing still admires himself. When he was first besieged, he Xu Jingqing resisted it, although the casualties of the troops were not small, but he saved most of his strength until the reinforcements arrived. By the time reinforcements from the 1st Regiment of the Guards Division arrived, the 13th Regiment was already running out of ammunition and food. He Xu Jingqing fought Hongbei Mountain, isn't it just to be appreciated by the governor one day.

No, the battle is not over yet, and a colonel rank is in hand. You must know that in the current national army sequence, colonels are all deputy division commanders, or those first-class staff officers and directors of various divisions in the headquarters. The regiment commander has the rank of colonel, and he Xu Jingqing is the first.

As for the commander of the first regiment of the guard division who got the rank of colonel at the same time as him, Xu Jingqing had never even heard of his name, and after a little inquiry, he found that the person was actually a child of the Chen family.

So Xu Jingqing regarded himself as the only colonel in his heart.

Xu Jingqing walked to Yuan Fang's side and said, "Division, although the ammunition of our department has also been replenished, the casualties are too great, and I don't know when we will be able to replenish the new soldiers!" ”

Yuan Fang looked at Xu Jingqing and nodded: "We have to wait for the replenishment of soldiers, we have to wait for the Sixth Division to come up and the recruits from Fuzhou come over!" ”

For Xu Jingqing, Yuan Fang originally didn't have any special feelings, so he treated him as an ordinary subordinate. But since the 13th regiment was surrounded, he has repeatedly expected Xu Jingqing to be able to withstand it, and now Xu Jingqing has definitely withstood it, there has been no surrender, and there has been no large-scale rout. This reassured Yuan Fang.

Yuan Fang knew very well that once the 13th Regiment was gone, it was estimated that Chen Jingyun would push himself to the end if he didn't kill him, and now the 13th Regiment was saved, although the casualties of the First Division as a whole were somewhat large, but it did not reach the point of being out of control, and Yuan Fang was really relieved after receiving Chen Jingyun's commendation telegram.

After a group of senior soldiers in the headquarters of the First Division laughed and praised each other, they arranged the follow-up combat arrangements. Although the 13th Regiment has now been relieved, the Zhejiang army has not been completely defeated, and there are still the remnants of the Fourth Brigade, the Fifth Brigade and the Sixth Brigade led by Zhu Rui of the Zhejiang Army in the front, with almost 8,000 people. On the other hand, Ye Songbin also led a small number of troops in stubborn resistance.

Although the overall situation has been won, there are also many follow-up battles.

On the 24th, the 11th and 21st regiments of the National Army launched a general attack again, and half of the last more than 1,000 die-hard troops under Ye Songbin were killed and wounded.

On the 25th, the 13th Regiment of the National Army and the 1st Guard Division jointly attacked and defeated Zhu Rui's division, which retreated to Hangzhou. That night, the 11th Regiment of the Nationalist Army intercepted the fleeing Zhu Rui's unit on a small hill outside Hangzhou.

On the 26th, the Nationalist Army besieged and annihilated Zhu Rui's headquarters outside Hangzhou, Zhu Rui committed suicide by drinking bullets, and most of the rest surrendered, including several brigade commanders and regiment commanders.

At the same time, the Nationalist Army officially entered the city of Hangzhou and announced that it would take over the defense of Hangzhou.

From the outbreak of the war on the 17th to the 26th, the war in Hangzhou changed very quickly, the first half of the Zhejiang army had the advantage, but the second half was the advantage of the national army.

Chen Jingyun, who was in Fuzhou City, learned that the troops had taken control of Hangzhou, and he was not as excited as he was when he learned that the First Regiment of the Guard Division had broken through the enemy's defensive line a few days ago, but just said: "I know, I ordered the troops to control the northern Zhejiang region as soon as possible!" ”

The victory of the war has been determined on the 23rd, and the next successive is just to clean up the beginning and the end, in fact, since a few days ago, Chen Jingyun has not paid much attention to the war in Hangzhou, but to the political aspect.

War has always been a continuation of politics, and the same is true of the war in Zhejiang. The struggle for power between Jiang and Zhu led to a large-scale war between the Zhejiang army and the Nationalist army, and now that the battle is over, the next thing is the political aspect. And it can be expected that with the victory of the National Army, the eyes of all parts of the country will be staring at Hangzhou, and they are all looking at him Chen Jingyun.

At this time, the affairs of Hangzhou were no longer the affairs of Zhejiang Province, and there were various forces intersecting in it, such as the southern governors, such as Nanjing, and the more important Yanjing side, all of which needed to be handled by Chen Jingyun one by one.

Not to mention the external forces, now that the Nationalist Army has won, then the future of Zhejiang, and how to deal with the future of the Nationalist Army in Zhejiang, is a matter that must be resolved.