Chapter 947: The German Question I

readx; The promotion of Cheng Lingyong to marshal in addition to his merits in the war against the Chinese people, but also because of his full qualifications, this person is not like Lu Jian step by step to the sky, he is in the air force step by step to get up, born in the second phase of the Fuzhou flight training team, that is, after China established the air force during the civil war, when preparing for the air force, with the first wing of the internal flight school, a total of five sessions, trained about 200 pilots, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the flight teaching team was abolished, the air force officially established the air force officer school. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

From the period of the civil war to the declaration of war, Cheng Lingyong climbed up step by step, from pilot to group captain to wing commander, and then to the director of the Air Force Operations Department, the president of the Air Force Military Academy, the vice minister of the Air Force Department, the chief of the Air Force General Staff, and the commander of the First Air Force.

In addition to his profound qualifications, during the war against Yue, he effectively commanded the First Air Force to completely seize air supremacy and used a large number of bombers to carry out strategic bombing of the First Air Force, and even the nuclear bombing of the Yueben was nominally carried out by the First Air Army.

In addition to Lu Jian and Cheng Lingyong, there was also a person on the army side who was promoted to marshal, that is, Chen Yanjia, the commander of the Third Group Army, who landed on the mainland.

Although the Third Army did not have any outstanding performance in the landing operation, this was mainly because there was no place for the army to play in this war, and it was said that it had just landed in Kyushu, and the army generals simply did not have enough time to make war achievements, but Chen Yanjia was also full of qualifications.

Before Xinhai, he graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point, and then joined the National Army through the recommendation of Jiang Fangzhen, and during the Civil War, he had risen and brought the rank of major general, and in the twenties and thirties, he was promoted to general, and even the long-established active general in the Chinese Army. Even Zuo Yugang once lowered his face and recommended himself to Chen Jingyun for the post of commander of the Third Army.

With such qualifications, it was only logical that he was promoted to marshal after the war.

In addition to the promotion of these three heavyweight marshals, a number of generals and lieutenant generals have been promoted, and these numbers are relatively large, and they are not limited to the front-line generals who directly participated in the war, and some of the generals who served in the rear have also been promoted.

There are promotions, and there are naturally awards, and unlike the generals who participated in the promotions on the spot, all of them were generals above the rank of major generals, and in addition to high-ranking generals, there were also a number of middle- and lower-level officers and even ordinary soldiers.

One of the most eye-catching is an army sergeant, of course, this was his rank before the war, and now he has been unusually promoted to major.

This person's name is Bi Feitong, and he was just an ordinary precision shooter before the war, but he relied on his extraordinary marksmanship to shoot more than 200 soldiers in the Philippine campaign with a 1916-style bolt-action rifle. But the reason why this man was able to stand out among the more than 15 million soldiers of the three services and win the Diamond Double Sword Medal, which represents the highest military honor, is because he also has other qualifications.

In addition to his amazing shooting skills, he was also an extremely good junior command officer, and after he was temporarily promoted to second lieutenant in the Philippine Campaign, he once led a platoon of troops to create a miracle of defeating an entire brigade of the Japanese army! This kind of thing, even if the equipment of the middle [***] team is good, and no matter how good the combat effectiveness of the soldiers is, it is impossible to say that it can be said that it can defeat a brigade of the army with just one platoon. However, he did it, and in that battle he alone shot and killed more than 50 soldiers, and the two machine guns he commanded killed and wounded at least 300 soldiers, forcing the complete collapse of the brigade.

After interviews with war correspondents and military propaganda, he has become a well-known combat hero in China, although his personal education is not high, let alone a military academy, but he still received successive exceptional promotions to major, and also got the opportunity to directly enter the army for further study.

This kind of thing is almost impossible for an ordinary soldier, you must know that in the [***] team, there is a clear distinction between officers and soldiers, officers are all from professional military schools, and even if a soldier has made a meritorious service, at most he will reach the rank of sergeant. Even in the case of officers on the battlefield who have been killed or wounded and have to be replaced by non-commissioned officers, they are only in command, and there are very few cases in which they are directly promoted to officers. It is impossible for a soldier to do this kind of thing in the middle [***] team, even if a soldier has potential, he will be recommended by the military to go to a military school, and he can only become an officer after graduating from the military school. However, Bi Feitong crossed this limitation and was directly promoted to major.

It is not surprising that such a person received a Diamond Double Sword Medal!

In addition to him, there are many pilots of the Navy and Air Force who have also been awarded the Diamond Double Sword Medal, and these people are basically super ace pilots who have shot down more than 100 enemy planes. However, it is regrettable that because China's response to the war was too short, and the number of planes involved in the war was too large, there were more wolves and less meat, so that there were no pilots in the Chinese navy and air force who said that they had shot down more than 200 planes, which was much inferior to the ace pilots who shot down two or three hundred planes by a large number of German planes.

Then there are more than a dozen middle- and high-level generals of the navy, land and air force who also won the Diamond Double Sword Medal.

Among them, there is another person who is more eye-catching, that is Chen Huatian, his position in the war is the chief of staff of the North Pacific Theater, although it is a bit reluctant to be promoted to this position due to his actual command ability and experience, but he has never been a simple soldier, his own command ability is not good, there are a large number of people behind him to give advice to him, and even Shen Gang, Chen Yi, these military marshals and bigwigs are directly standing behind Chen Huatian to give him advice, Otherwise, he would not be able to hold the post of chief of staff of the North Pacific Theater.

Also because of his special status, in order to further strengthen his military prestige, Chen Jingyun also arranged him among the winners of the Diamond Double Sword Medal.

Chen Jingyun left Chen Huatian no more time to serve in the military, as time passes, Chen Jingyun is getting closer and closer to the time before he quits the stage, before this he not only wants to gain enough prestige for Chen Huatian, but also chooses to transfer Chen Huatian out of the military system in a short period of time, arrange for him to serve in the political axe, and accumulate enough experience in handling government affairs for him, after all, the future China does not need a military reader, but needs a person with military prestige, But politicians who also have a deep level of politics.

In a few years, Chen Jingyun will arrange Chen Huatian to serve in the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Civil Affairs and other parts, of course, he will not directly serve as the chief of these key departments, but the position of deputy minister, as long as he is studying, when the time comes, he will directly replace him as the president, and Chen Jingyun will continue to guard the position of chairman of the State Military Commission and chairman of the National Socialist Party to escort this eldest son.

When this set of procedures comes down, Chen Jingyun will be at least 70 years old at that time, and Chen Huatian will have to be in his 40s, and at that time, it will be logical to hand over the army and the Kuomintang to Chen Huatian, so that he can become a real national talent.

For the sake of Chen Huatian, the heir, Chen Jingyun can be said to have spent great effort, and did his best to arrange a steady path for him to embark on the road of a national scholar.

The promotion and award ceremony lasted for a whole afternoon, and the event was finally over, and the next day it was officially announced to the outside world, the announcement was mainly about the promotion of three marshals, and at the same time announced that Navy Marshal Lu Jian and Air Force Marshal Cheng Lingyong would serve as standing members of the State Military Commission.

When China is celebrating and rewarding meritorious soldiers, it also announces that the war in the Pacific has come to an end, and although China and the United States are still quarreling fiercely over the ownership of some islands, the large-scale military operations of various countries have already come to an end.

After all, the confrontation between China and the United States is mostly a confrontation under the undercurrent, and many things cannot be put on the table to argue, and ordinary people in the outside world do not know much about it.

In the eyes of the world, they already think that the center of gravity of the world situation has shifted to the side of Germany in Europe, but what they don't know is that if the early stage of this world war was still centered on Germany and the world, then today in 1944, this world war has nothing to do with Germany, and this world war is actually a world war of confrontation between China and the United States. All of them are inseparable from China's influence.

Without China's support, Ben would not have had the courage and ability to start a Pacific War. Now, if it were not for China's large amount of material support, Germany would have been defeated long ago.

The decision on the war situation in Europe was not in the hands of Britain, nor in the hands of Germany, nor in the hands of Soviet Russia, but in the hands of the United States and China.