readx; The time entered August, and the rainy season in the Yangtze River basin finally ended slowly after more than a month, although there was still a continuous drizzle in some areas at this time, but it did not affect the battle of the army on a large scale. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Because of the big war, it is not a matter of one day or two, not even a month or two months, but a large-scale war that will continue for many months, and the small-scale rain that will continue in early August will no longer cause the main obstacle to the decisive battle between the two sides.

On 1 August, just after returning from Shanghai, an enlarged meeting was held in Nanjing, which was attended not only by high-ranking military generals, but also by some high-ranking civilian officials.

On the huge rectangular table, Chen Jingyun sat on the main seat in a brown-green general's dress, and on both sides of the table sat a large number of military and political dignitaries, including Tang Jiyao and Lu Rongting's envoys.

On the right hand side are the military generals headed by Yuan Fang, including Lieutenant General Yuan Fang, chief of the General Staff, Lieutenant General Sun Guangliang, chief of the Logistics Department, Lieutenant General Ouyang Tian, chief of the Equipment Department, Major General Chen Yi, director of the Operations Department, and Major General Chen Weihua, director of the Strategy Department. In addition, there are Lieutenant General Shen Gang, commander of the First Army, Lieutenant General Ma Cheng, commander of the Second Army, and Lieutenant General Li Jimin, commander of the Third Army. The commanders of these three departments and the directors of the two most important divisions of the General Staff Department came, and among the four major commanders of the Nationalist Army, three came, and only Lin Chengkun, who was far away in Nanchang, could not reach them because of the distance. In addition to these army generals, Vice Admiral Sa Zhenbing, chief of the navy's navy, and Rear Admiral Wu Shizhong, chief of the air force, were also there.

It can be said that this group of generals includes all the high-level and powerful generals of the National Army, and they are the core and high-level leaders of the National Army. The others were not even qualified to participate in this strategic meeting, which shows the high standard.

Since there is no such position as president of the Government Affairs Yuan, but the heads of various ministries are directly responsible to Chen Jingyun, so the people present are Zheng Zuyin, the chief of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, Cen Chunxuan, the deputy minister, and An Hualin, the chief of the Ministry of Finance.

"As you all know, our army has been preparing for this war for more than half a year, and as soon as the war in southern Jiangsu ended last year, the relevant war materials were prepared, and the deployment and transfer of troops were carried out three months ago, so it can be said that we have been preparing for this war in the past year. And now, the preparations have been completed, the arrows are on the string, and it is time to send them out. Chen Jingyun first said this opening remark, then paused and continued: "Don't let me continue to say anything about how important this battle is to us, you all know it in your hearts, if we win, we will be able to take charge of the central government, and if we lose, it will be a catastrophe." ”

"So in this battle, I want everyone to do their best and not have any slack!" After Chen Jingyun finished speaking, he looked around at everyone present, as he imagined, most of the people present showed excited looks, and a few also had worried looks.

In such a meeting, it is naturally not the time to discuss the detailed military plan, although many senior generals of the Nationalist Army can guess that the operation of crossing the river can be found in the southern Anhui region, after all, the Nationalist Army is now gathering in Wuhu, which is full of the Beiyang Army, but not the senior generals of the Nationalist Army. However, not many people know the detailed battle plan and the overall strategic deployment, but Chen Jingyun himself, Shen Gang, Yuan Fang and Chen Yi. Everyone else knows a little bit about it, but it is absolutely impossible to know the whole plan.

This pre-war meeting focused more on the follow-up situation, such as logistics supply, some public opinion propaganda for which the Government Council was responsible, and pacification of the people. The most important thing is that Chen Jingyun wants to give them a signal, and the war is about to begin!

In addition to making the greatest efforts to ensure the logistics of the army, solve the problem of treating wounded soldiers, and reassuring the people, the Ministry of Civil Affairs also put forward a plan, and the Ministry of Civil Affairs will send a large number of officials to follow behind the national army to stabilize the places occupied by the national army, so as to prevent the national army from wasting its energy on maintaining the place.

The most important and only business of the Ministry of Finance is to solve the problem of military spending, Anwarin has become more and more of a politician in recent years, and after a pause, he said: "The marshal of the military expenditure issue can rest assured, now the remaining funds of our Ministry of Finance are sufficient, and the sales momentum of the newly issued 50 million recovering bonds is now good, and it will be able to collect a sum of money in the next few months." However, on the issue of military spending, Huaxia Bank needs more cooperation! ”

Anhualin's need Huaxia Bank to cooperate with Chen Jingyun naturally understands what, and now Huaxia Bank in the national army system in addition to acting as a commercial bank, the more important function is to act as a central bank to issue banknotes. At present, almost all of the financial income of the Southern Provisional Political Axe is deposited in Huaxia Bank, and when the money is needed, it is directly withdrawn, and even the salaries of more than 100,000 soldiers of the National Army are also distributed through Huaxia Bank.

Naturally, Huaxia Bank issued Huayuan banknotes, and through the issuance of banknotes, in fact, the funds that Huaxia Bank could raise were much higher than the principal he had reserved.

And the cooperation that Anwarin said is nothing more than asking Huaxia Bank to appropriately relax the proportion of banknotes issued when the national army's finances are tight, and use it to serve as military expenses, especially the salaries of soldiers.

Although this kind of move will cause the depreciation of the Chinese dollar, and even affect the lives of the people because of inflation, if it really comes to the time when the Ministry of Finance can't come up with the money, it is also a last resort to directly print a large number of paper money as military spending. After all, if they lose at that time, it is not their turn to worry about whether these banknotes will become waste paper, and if they win, the value of this banknote is guaranteed by the political axe.

Although Huaxia Bank plays the function of a central bank, it is actually a private bank, and Chen Jingyun himself still occupies a large number of shares in it, and the Ministry of Finance wants Huaxia Bank to cooperate in expanding the issuance of banknotes, and it is impossible without Chen Jingyun's nod.

"Don't worry, what I told Huaxia Bank to do, the Ministry of Finance will come up with the corresponding plan. However, we must also pay attention to proportion, just expand the proportion appropriately in the early stage, and we must not let the Chinese dollar depreciate until the moment of emergency! Chen Jingyun understands very well how much effort Huaxia Bank has spent in order to establish the circulation and credit of Huayuan, Huaxia Bank relies on Chen Jingyun's strong support, and now it is only to let Huayuan circulate in Fujian, Zhejiang and Shanghai, and many people do not recognize this banknote at all, and they have to use real money to rest assured. Still, the effort involved is not known to outsiders, and the credibility is difficult to build, but it will only be destroyed overnight.

And Huayuan's credit has not only affected Huaxia Bank itself, but also affected the Southern Temporary Political Axe, which has used Huayuan for political axe settlement.

In the Southern Provisional Political Axe, some taxes such as commercial taxes have been set to only receive Chinese dollar banknotes, and the salaries of civil servants and military personnel are paid in paper money, and some internal military procurement and political axe procurement are also paid with Chinese dollar banknotes. Although this cycle is still limited to the internal system of the national army and the subsidiary system, if the Chinese yuan is excessively devalued, once this cycle collapses, the national army will not use the Beiyang Army to fight and it will be over. After all, when more than 100,000 soldiers of the National Army found that the banknotes they got were worthless, I am afraid that they would make Chen Jingyun's rebellion as soon as possible.

Anwarin also knows the severity: "This is only a reservation plan of the Ministry of Finance, and there will be no large-scale plan to issue additional banknotes in the early stage!" ”

To fight a war, the first is to ask for money, the second is to ask for money, and the third is to ask for money!

Therefore, this finance is the most critical, so this financial and military expenditure and other issues are not only Chen Jingyun and An Hualin are talking about, but also attract a group of generals such as Zheng Zuyin and Yuan Fang to occasionally ask a few words, and An Hualin patted his chest and promised: "With the current money of the Ministry of Finance and the expected income in the future, the Ministry of Finance can fully support the national army to continue a large-scale war for half a year!" ”

The so-called large-scale war in Anwarin's mouth is based on the war in southern Jiangsu, and the cost is as high as tens of millions a month!

Anwarin's assurances made a group of generals feel a lot more relieved, they didn't want the front line to fight nervously, the rear would not be able to come up with money to replenish bullets and shells and other combat materials, nor could they come up with money to pay soldiers' salaries, and then they would be defeated without a fight.

Towards the end, Chen Jingyun said: "Let's all go back and prepare!" ”

After the meeting was dispersed, Chen Jingyun held a military meeting in the headquarters, and the participants were still those high-ranking generals just now; Chen Jingyun did not talk superfluously in the meeting, and after reiterating the main points of the river-crossing operation, that is, to assign tasks to various units and issue combat orders, that night Ma Cheng and Li Jimin rushed to their military headquarters overnight, Li Jimin returned to Shanghai, and Ma Cheng went to Wuhu.

In order to better command the war in Anhui, Chen Jingyun ordered the Eighth Division and the Fifth Division to also be placed under the command of the Second Army. The Second Army commanded by Ma Cheng had the Fifth, Sixth, Eighth, and Ninth Divisions, as well as the Fifth Mixed Brigade. Four divisions and one mixed brigade with a total strength of more than 50,000 troops. and dispatched a number of staff officers from the staff department to join the headquarters of the Second Army to give advice to Ma Cheng.

After Ma Cheng's Second Army crossed the river, the First and Fourth Divisions of the First Army would follow closely behind, serving as the second echelon as the reserve of the First Army.

The rest of the 2nd and 7th Divisions of the 1st Army, the 3rd and 11th Divisions of the 3rd Army, and the Guard Division remaining in southern Jiangsu will garrison southern Jiangsu. If Anhui progresses smoothly, the 3rd and 11th Divisions of the Third Army will also take the opportunity to cross the river from Yangzhou and other areas to attack the Jiangbei region and form an encirclement around Jiangbei.

During this military redeployment, Chen Jingyun also fully realized the advantages of not having a fixed army-level establishment, with the army headquarters being responsible for one side of the war, while the specific subordinate units were temporarily transferred and could be changed at any time. The corps of the National Army is to deal with the strategic direction, and the division is the existence of the tactical level.

On August 3, Chen Jingyun issued the latest combat order, approving the general offensive time that had been postponed three times in a row by the General Staff and issuing the general offensive order!

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The following words are free of charge, and simply list the comparison and deployment of the forces of the Southern Coalition Army and the Beiyang Army:

Beiyang Army:

The First Army was deployed on the Huyanjing-Han Line, with Duan Zhigui as the commander, and the Second and Sixth Divisions under its jurisdiction. In addition, three divisions of the Hubei Provincial Army were under the command of Duan Zhigui.

The Second Army was deployed on the Jinpu Line in southern Jiangsu, with Feng Guozhang as the commander, and had jurisdiction over the 5th, 7th, 10th, and 2nd Mixed Brigades.

Anhui region: Cao Kun is the envoy of the Anhui Protector Army, and has jurisdiction over the third division (three brigades) and three divisions of the Anhui Army under his command. And the 17th Brigade of the 9th Division of Henan was stationed in northern Anhui.

Hunan region: Yang Shande is the Hunan Protector Envoy, with the fourth division under his command, and three other divisions of the Hunan Army under his command.

Gyeonggi area: 1st Division, 16th Division, 1st Mixed Brigade.

Shanxi area: the 6th Mixed Brigade (in addition to Yan Xishan's two divisions and two brigades)

Northeast region: 3rd Mixed Brigade, 4th Mixed Brigade.

Mobile deployment of troops: The 11th Division is stationed in Chuzhou, and the 20th and 23rd Divisions are being dispatched south from the northeast! The 5th Mixed Brigade was stationed in Jinan, Shandong, and a brigade of Zhang Xun's 8th Division in the Qingjiangpu area.

There are total: 1st to 11th Divisions, 16th Divisions, 20th Divisions, and 23rd Divisions. Fourteen central divisions, and six central mixed brigades. A number of subordinate local provincial armies are attached, including local troops in Hunan and Hubei, Anhui, Shaanxi, Shanxi, and Northeast China.

Southern Coalition Forces:

Militia:

First Army (Southern Jiangsu): 1st Division, 2nd Division, 4th Division, 7th Division

Second Army (Anhui): 5th Division, 6th Division, 8th Division, 9th Division, 5th Mixed Brigade

Third Army (Southern Jiangsu): Third Division, Eleventh Division

Fourth Army (Jiangxi, Hunan): 10th Division, 1st Mixed Brigade, 2nd Mixed Brigade, 3rd Mixed Brigade, 4th Mixed Brigade

14th Mixed Brigade: Guangzhou

Gui Jun:

Fifth Army: 12th, 13th, 14th, 6th Mixed Brigade, 7th Mixed Brigade, 8th Mixed Brigade

Dian Army:

Sixth Army: 15th, 16th, 17th, 9th Mixed Brigade

Seventh Army: 18th Division, 19th Division, 20th Division, 10th Mixed Brigade, 11th Mixed Brigade, 12th Mixed Brigade, 13th Mixed Brigade

The Southern Coalition Army had a total of 20 divisions and 14 mixed brigades.

On both sides there are troops with the surname of the local garrison regiment, and the fighters are extremely poor and negligible!