readx; As the news of the Nationalist army's capture of Qingdao spread, the whole of China was plunged into jubilation, especially in the southeastern provinces where the Kuomintang had deep roots, where the Kuomintang members and young students held grand marches, students from schools such as the Shanghai Higher School and the Shanghai Normal School staged large-scale demonstrations and celebrations, and other major cities carried out similar activities to a greater or lesser extent. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

In this era, although the rural areas have not yet been fully integrated into the world information system, and the rural people do not know or care about the world situation and national affairs, in the big cities, in the areas where the telegraph and newspapers are popular, not to mention the enthusiastic young students, even ordinary people will pay attention to the major events reported in the newspapers. However, the Kuomintang enforces a news supervision system for the newspapers and media in its jurisdiction, and has always had a fine tradition of reporting good news but not bad news, so as soon as the Kuomintang won a victory on the Qingdao front, the Kuomintang propaganda organs began to carry out overwhelming propaganda.

This time, the focus of propaganda was not a military victory over the fortress of Qingdao, but on the recovery of the colony of Qingdao and the German concessions of Wuhan and Tianjin, thus giving people the impression that the Kuomintang led by Chen Jingyun was unswervingly striving for the rejuvenation of China, and after several years of struggle, the sacrifices of many Kuomintang members finally paid off, that is, the recovery of Qingdao.

In this era, there is nothing more than the words concession and sovereignty to arouse the concern of the broad masses of the people, and nothing can make the people more excited than the resumption of the concession.

And Chen Jingyun, who made all this, once again got the phenomenon of deification in this large-scale propaganda campaign, and in the celebration parade held in Fuzhou, he even directly typed "Long live Chairman Chen!" for the first time! "Slogan!" This kind of thing has never happened before, even though the propaganda department of the Kuomintang has been deifying Chen Jingyun's personal image for more than two years, Chen Jingyun's influence in the Kuomintang army is extremely huge, and some slogans of Chen Jingyun's long live can often be heard from the population of the Kuomintang army, but this is the effect achieved under the forced brainwashing propaganda of many Kuomintang political officers, and it is not without a common representative surname. At this time, Chen Jingyun is just a political figure similar to Yuan Shikai and Sun Wen for the majority of Chinese people, and unlike Yuan Shikai and Sun Wen, Chen Jingyun is the winner, while the other two are losers.

However, only a few months after the fall of Beiyang, Chen Jingyun led the Nationalist Army to take advantage of the outbreak of war in Europe to decisively recover Qingdao by force, although in early August, when Chen Jingyun declared war on Germany after the British followed, there were many people who were suspicious, and many people were worried that Chen Jingyun's hardline attitude this time would achieve bad results, and they were even more afraid that Germany would win the European war and return to Asia to find trouble with China after the end.

However, many of these worries disappeared with the complete capture of the Nationalist Army, and other voices such as doubts and worries had disappeared, and news of the repossession of Qingdao and various related news came at any time.

Through the First Battle of Qingdao, the influence of the Kuomintang in China was further enhanced, and Chen Jingyun's personal prestige had risen to a stage beyond the reach of others.

"Xu Lishan did a good job this time!" Chen Jingyun did not hesitate to praise his meritorious generals: "Being able to conquer the Qingdao Fortress, which has been operated by the German army for many years and defended by nearly 10,000 people, within 12 days, it can be seen that he worked hard!" ”

Shen Gang, who has always admired Xu Lishan very much, also said with a smile: "Xu Lishan can be regarded as one of the few generals in our army who has the ability to command large corps and is good at tackling tough battles!" ”

The Chinese army in Shen Gang's mouth does not refer to the [***] team, but to the national army. Under the current State Military Commission of the Republic of China, there are nominally 11 corps, 33 infantry divisions (including guard divisions), 33 cavalry divisions, and 26 mixed brigades. Whether it is the Nationalist Army, the Dian Army, or the Eleventh Army under Duan Zhigui, they are all nominally the national armed forces of the Republic of China, but this is only the surface, and in fact, these military forces are divided into multiple systems, which are relatively readable. There are Tang Jiyao's Yunnan army system, Lu Rongting's Gui army system, Duan Zhigui's Beiyang remnants, and Yan Xishan's Jin army.

As China's largest warlord and the apparent ruler of the Republic of China, Chen Jingyun's national army system is naturally the largest, needless to say, the navy and air force, and other warlords have neither warships nor aircraft. As for the army, the Nationalist Army now has a total of 20 infantry divisions, three cavalry divisions, 13 mixed brigades, two fortress garrison regiments, and two reading artillery regiments, including the guard divisions, and the total strength of the field troops is already as high as about 310,000, while many units have not yet reached full strength, so if all of them are fully established, the total strength of the field troops will reach about 350,000. Among so many troops, there are 36 commanders at the division and brigade level of each unit alone, and if we add the chiefs of staff of each army and the generals of various departments under the State Military Commission, there are already more than 100 major generals alone, and there are more than 10 at the rank of lieutenant generals.

Among these people, there are actually only a handful of people who really have the ability to command large corps, the former chief of staff and the current commander of the Second Army, Yuan Fang, who formulated the battle of crossing the river during his tenure as chief of staff, and commanded the Chaohu Campaign, the Hefei Campaign, the Chuzhou Campaign, and the Bengbu Campaign after being transferred to the commander of the Second Army, and in the Henan Campaign after the Northern Expedition, the Hubei Campaign was also under the overall command of Yuan Fang. Although Yuan Fang did not have that obvious bright spot, he was the first senior general in the National Army who had the ability to command a large corps of soldiers. Although Shen Gang said that his rank in the national army was higher than Yuan Fang, and his reputation was greater than Yuan Fang, even after serving as the chief of staff, he formulated various strategic plans, but Shen Gang actually did not actually command a large corps to fight.

After Yuan Fang, the ability and qualifications are Li Jimin, although the performance in the early stage of the Jiangbei Campaign was not too conspicuous, but in the follow-up Xuzhou Campaign, Jinan Campaign, the first army under his command plus the support troops of the second, second and third armies at that time, the troops under his command were once as high as more than 100,000, especially in the Xuzhou Campaign, when the Nationalist Army and the Beiyang Army invested more than 200,000 troops, but the Nationalist Army has fought the largest battle since its formation.

In addition to Yuan Fang and Li Jimin, then only the current Xu Lishan has the experience and ability to command a large corps to fight, and this is the Qingdao Campaign, don't look at Qingdao is only so big, but the Nationalist Army has successively invested more than 100,000 troops in the direction of Shandong, to let these troops play the greatest combat effectiveness and take Qingdao in the shortest possible time, this task is not simple, by no means to just issue orders to let the troops participate in the war, many of the plans and arrangements are Xu Lishan's trouble.

Except for these three people, there is no other senior general in the national army who has commanded more than 100,000 troops, and several other army commanders have no similar experience, and even Shen Gang himself lacks sufficient experience.

"Now that Qingdao has been lowered, after the meritorious soldiers of the front-line troops return to Nanjing, we are ready to hold a promotion ceremony!" Chen Jingyun has never been stingy with military ranks and positions for meritorious soldiers.

When Nanjing was preparing to reward meritorious soldiers, he said, "Ben was surprised after hearing the news that the Chinese [***] team had conquered Qingdao, and Youpeng in Shanxian was surprised when he heard the news and asked directly: "Really captured?" ”

"According to the news from China, this news should be unmistakable!" One of the lieutenant generals below replied respectfully.

Youpeng in Shan County pondered for a long time before he said, "They only declared war two days earlier than us, right?" This calculation should be that the attack was launched on the 6th, and Qingdao was captured on the 18th, which took only 12 days? ”

Without waiting for the person next to him to answer, Youpeng from Shan County continued: "When our army conquered Lushun, it took more than 150 days, and more than 50,000 soldiers were killed or wounded! Speaking of this, Shan Youpeng looked up at the lieutenant general: "Tell me, how did the Chinese do it?" ”

In order to conquer Lushun, Nogi Noshinori fully carried forward the spirit of "my own meat", not only let his son die on the front line, but also failed to conquer Lushun after more than 50,000 people were killed and wounded, and later Kodama Gentaro took over the command before conquering Lushun after more than 6,000 people were killed and wounded. Although the number of fortifications and defenders of Qingdao Fortress is not as good as that of Lushun Fortress in those years, there are also a lot of fortifications and heavy artillery, and the strength is four or five thousand people, and it is not impossible to add the mobilization force of temporary armed forces to nearly 10,000 people. And the attacking squadron did not have too much siege artillery, how could they have conquered Qingdao in just twelve days?

Therefore, he said, "I guessed according to my own thinking: "According to the information from Jinan, the Chinese People's Army suffered heavy casualties in this battle, and several divisions attacking on the front line had suffered heavy losses in five or six days and had to withdraw from the front line. According to the predictions of front-line intelligence officers, the Chinese suffered at least 30,000 casualties in this battle, and this data should be verifiable compared with when our army conquered the Lushun fortress that year! ”

He said: "The number of casualties of the Nationalist Army in this speculation is naturally inaccurate, and this estimate is only judged by himself using the Lushun Battle and the estimation of the combat effectiveness of the Nationalist Army, and as for the exact surname, they themselves do not know."