Shen Gang, this person is a relatively special person in the current National Army. The reason why he is special is not because of his experience in studying in Lushi, nor because of his personal surname, but because of his status in the national army system.

Like all the current domestic armies, most of the senior generals of the National Army under Chen Jingyun were people who followed Chen Jingyun at the beginning, and most of them were Chen Jingyun's descendant generals, especially the descendants of the second battalion, such as Ma Cheng, the leader of the second battalion, Lin Chengkun, the supervisor of the team, and the four team officers at that time, Chen Anhua, Zhuang Dafu, Li Lianyang, and Lin Feitai. These people are basically division commanders now, and even Zhuang Dafu, who was still the deputy division commander some time ago, asked Chen Jingyun to be the commander of the newly formed Eighth Division. There were even more officers at the regimental and battalion levels, and basically the officers of the second battalion at that time were basically promoted several ranks, and even the more senior ordinary soldiers were mostly promoted to grass-roots officers at the company and platoon level.

It can be said that at present, the officers from the second battalion account for the vast majority of the officers of the national army, and this force is also the foundation of Chen Jingyun's control of the national army.

In addition to the people from the second battalion, the remaining group of officers who took the initiative to vote or simply surrendered when Chen Jingyun recovered Fujian, such as Li Jimin, such as Yuan Fang, such as Zhuang Xianhe, Xu Lishan and others, the number of this group of people is also quite large. As for the powerful revolutionaries at that time, they had already been suppressed by Chen Jingyun, except for Xiao Qibin, who was also the deputy division commander, there was no other regimental-level officer, and so far they could not influence the national army.

In addition to these two major factions, there is also a relatively nascent group, that is, the military talents recruited after Chen Jingyun took control of Fujian, such as Shen Gang, Liang Xunqin, Guo Hengsi, and then Chen Yi, Jiang Fangzhen, Wen Jizhong, Chen Yanjia, Situ Jun and others who joined the National Army after the Hangzhou War this year, most of these people are now serving in the National Army Headquarters, serving as the directors of various divisions, and the only one who was sent to the army by Chen Jingyun was only one Shen Gang.

After Shen Gang served as the commander of the Third Division, many discerning people could almost see that Chen Jingyun was planning to reuse this group of military talents who would come later.

The reason why Chen Jingyun has such a choice is very simple, that is, the national army needs a large number of high-ranking officers to improve the quality of the troops, and must supplement a large number of qualified military personnel, in addition, he also needs to support a faction to balance the mountains in the army.

Chen Jingyun asked himself if he had the ability to put an end to mountaineering in the army, factional strife has existed since the beginning, there are now, and there will be in the future, as long as there are people, this factional strife will be inevitable. Since it can't be eliminated, then it is necessary to balance this faction, so as not to affect one's control of the troops and the combat effectiveness of the troops after the faction is out of balance.

In fact, in addition to the factions among these high-ranking officers, there are also other factions in the Nationalist Army, such as the officers of the crash course and the regular class in the Fuzhou Military Academy, who also look at each other at each other.

Of course, now that the national army is still on the rise, the boundaries of factions in the army are not obvious, and there is no fight between factions for the time being, but as time slowly passes, problems will always appear, and now what Chen Jingyun has to do is to balance in advance and try to avoid problems.

Under the system of the National Army, Shen Gang's appointment as the commander of the Third Division is of special significance.

However, despite the consideration of balancing factions, Chen Jingyun promoted Shen Gang to the position of commander of the third division because he also valued his ability.

In the battle of Hangzhou, Shen Gang served as the deputy chief of staff in the provisional First Army as the director of the Operations Department, and then in the battle to relieve the siege of 13, he personally led the guard division to strengthen the regiment to attack the position of the Zhejiang army with Yu Ruofei, and personally led a battalion to break through the enemy's important front, thus causing the collapse of the enemy's defense line and laying the victory of the Hangzhou war in one fell swoop.

Chen Jingyun remembered this merit, so as soon as he returned, he was promoted to major general, and then put him in the position of commander of the third division in a new round of senior officer adjustment in July.

Since he became the division commander, Shen Gang can be regarded as high-spirited, and everyone unanimously believes that he is Chen Jingyun's confidant and favorite general, and his future is limitless.

After arriving in Chaozhou, Shen Gang began to train the Third Division on the basis of various materials left by his predecessor, and at the same time formulated various combat plans for Guangdong, and at the same time closely followed various movements in Guangdong.

When Guangzhou was in chaos, Shen Gang called Chen Jingyun and asked for instructions. In those two or three days, Shen Gang on the one hand stepped up preparations for war and made preparations to set off at any time, and on the other hand, he was also anxiously waiting for the military orders from Fuzhou.

On the second day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the order that Shen Gang was waiting for finally came, and on the same day, he led the Third Division to set off for Guangzhou.

"Master, we are almost at the boundary of Huizhou!" A staff officer walked over to Shen Gang with a map.

Shen Gang took the military map and looked at it and said, "Why is the 32nd Regiment so slow?" Only fifty miles from the headquarters? ”

A staff officer immediately replied: "Commander Qiu's 32nd Regiment was detouring to Shawan Town, but a stone bridge that was ready to pass suddenly collapsed, causing the 32nd Regiment's march to be blocked, and the relevant logistical baggage could not be transported across the river. So much so that it was necessary to build a temporary bridge before it could be crossed, which delayed it for a day. ”

When Shen Gang heard this, his eyebrows furrowed, but he didn't say anything, he nodded directly and said: "Give the 32nd regiment an order, let them speed up their journey, and they must arrive at the predetermined area on time!" ”

Shen Gang was a little dissatisfied with the slow movement of the 32nd, but he had no reason to get angry in the event of this natural disaster, the Third Division stayed in Chaozhou for nearly a year, in addition to knowing the local terrain of Chaozhou well, it also sent a large number of surveyors to the entire Guangdong region to survey and map the military map, and with these detailed operational maps, the Third Division could calmly arrange various tactics. However, encountering this kind of thing now also made Shen Gang a little depressed.

When the third division marched in the direction of Guangzhou, the city of Guangzhou was still chaotic, since the first and second divisions of Guangdong in the city had a rebellion, and then the rebels almost lost their formation, everywhere there were scattered soldiers wandering in twos and threes, gunshots could be heard in the city from time to time, the cries of children and the cries of women would occasionally come out of a certain house, some of them were crying and crying or suddenly a few gunshots were heard, and then the house fell into silence, But it didn't take long to see one or two soldiers with more than one or two of them laughing as they walked out, often carrying all sorts of belongings in addition to guns, and even women's belly pockets and other personal belongings.

In one of the houses, after the three rebels left, there were a few sounds in the house, and a man crawled out of the bed, trembling all over, and then completely ignored the mess in the house and looked at a large pool of blood on the ground, the blood stains were not one person's, but two people, one big and one small, the small one was a three-year-old child, the small body had two muzzles, at this time it was already silent, the big one was a woman with no half piece of cloth to cover her body, with a large red stasis on her body, and her lower body was also a mess, And what is even more shocking is a big muzzle on the chest, the woman will not be dead, the eyes look at her husband who is crawling out under the bed, and then the eyes are rolled and he is out of breath, and the rolled eyes seem to be crying, as if shouting......

The husband looked at the mother and son on the ground as if he was demented, and then he didn't cry or shout, he just sat on the ground, his body still trembling slightly, and after half a ring, he turned around the house, circled the bed sheet, and threw it on the beam. The autumn wind blew in through one window, shaking the corpses on the beams, and then went out through the window on the other side of the room, and by this time, the autumn wind had already carried the slightest smell of blood.

The turmoil in Guangzhou this time is more serious and shocking than last year's when more than 100,000 people's troops were detained in Guangzhou. Although more than 100,000 people did evil last year, because of Long Jiguang's troops watching, although the people had burning, killing and looting, on the whole Guangzhou City still maintained a fragile stability. However, the more than 20,000 soldiers in Guangzhou have all mutinied, and the army that protects the territory and the people has suddenly become bandits and hooligans who burn, kill, and loot, and they are still heavily armed bandits and hooligans.

There are more than 20,000 rebels, but there is no effective army in Guangzhou that can threaten them, so the more than 20,000 rebels are called unscrupulous. At that time, in order to control the situation, Hu Hanmin tried to use a military police battalion of more than 500 people and a police battalion of 3 or 400 people to maintain order and recover the rebels.

Not only that, but the actions of the rebels also inspired more hooligans and bandits to rebel, and soon the more than 20,000 rebels in the city became tens of thousands of homeless people to rebel together.

At this time, the city of Guangzhou has completely fallen into chaos, there are rioters everywhere, the order of the whole Guangzhou has collapsed, the nursing homes of large families are cautious with guns to guard the homes, and the ordinary people can only hide at home trembling, trying to mess with the soldiers not to find their own homes, there are also some men with blood surnames will pick up guns or kitchen knives to guard the door, and the chaotic soldiers will even be killed by the people who have been prepared for a long time.

In the face of the chaos in Guangzhou, Hu Hanmin and Chen Jiongming were almost in a hurry, and at the same time regretted in their hearts why they were so stupid at that time, and took the initiative to provoke trouble, Chen Jiongming regretted that he had retained too many bandit militia when he formed the first and second divisions of Guangdong. But now regret is useless.