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The Battle of Taizhou can almost be said to be a classic battle for pursuit and encirclement in the plains, simple and fast, and hit the enemy in one fell swoop, even Xu Lishan himself did not believe that it would be fought so smoothly, you must know that the battle between the National Army and the Beiyang Army, but there were victories and defeats, even if it was the so-called victorious Chaohu Campaign, it took a long time, and the Nationalist Army spent a great price to take it, and now when attacking Hefei, the two sides are repeatedly entangled, The Nationalist army's logistical supply lines were also continuously attacked by enemy cavalry, and the 1st and 4th Divisions of the 1st Army in the Wugang area did not have much of the upper hand. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

And today, Xu Lishan just commanded the troops to carry out a simple pursuit and encirclement battle, but in this way, he wiped out most of the more than 4,000 people of the Seventh Division of the Beiyang Army in one fell swoop, and the smooth operation of the war made him not believe it, in fact, this result is not surprising, originally the Taizhou defenders were well guarded in Taizhou, and yesterday they also repelled a tentative attack of the National Army, not to mention the National Army that killed and wounded dozens of people.

However, last night Wang Ruxian ordered the Taizhou defenders to retreat, and they were retreating on the plain, Wang Ruxian overestimated the retreat ability of his troops, and in the face of the frontal attack of the superior enemy, he retreated without making any preparations and responses, and it was okay at first, but it became a rout when pursued by the third division.

No matter what era it is, the evaluation of an army's combat effectiveness is not to see how strong its offensive ability is, but to see whether it can smoothly organize a retreat. Obviously, Wang Ruxian's Seventh Division obviously lacks such ability, in fact, not to mention Wang Ruxian's Seventh Division, even Cao Kun's Third Division, the old descendants of the Beiyang Army, cannot organize the retreat well, not only the Beiyang Army, but even many of the main forces of the National Army also lack the corresponding ability. This is also why the two sides rarely have a large-scale active retreat in the course of the battle, whether it is Chaohu or Hefei or other directions, they will basically fight to the death, and there are rarely things like active retreat. Because the commanders on both sides knew very well that they were not capable of organizing a smooth retreat under the pursuit of the enemy, and a failure to retreat would turn into a rout, so there was rarely a retreat without absolute necessity! The guerrilla tactics of the enemy's advance and retreat, and the enemy's retreat and our advance are not suitable for large-scale frontal battlefields, and can only be used for disturbance operations by small groups of troops, and once the troops on both sides enter the frontal combat distance, it is a battle line that stretches for dozens of kilometers, and a retreat at any point may trigger the collapse of the whole front. This is true of the descendants of the Beiyang Army, the same is true of the main force of the National Army, and Wang Ruxian's Seventh Division also lacks such capabilities.

Obviously, Wang Ruxian overestimated the combat effectiveness of his subordinate troops, and originally thought that it should not be a problem to retreat in the middle of the night, but by the time the Nationalist army discovered and pursued, they had already retreated to Jiangdu overnight. But those officers of the National Army are not stupid, as soon as they saw that the Beiyang defenders in Taizhou had an abnormality, they immediately judged that the Beiyang Army was going to run, and then Xu Lishan made a quick decision, and immediately sent the 32nd Regiment to march lightly and quickly, bypassing the western part of Taizhou to intercept the Beiyang Army fleeing westward.

The 32nd Regiment also successfully intercepted the Taizhou defenders who fled west and blocked them on the spot for three hours, successfully insisted on the reinforcement of the main force of the third division in the rear, and carried out an annihilation strike on the Beiyang Army in one fell swoop, the Beiyang Army of more than 4,000 people only escaped less than 1,000 people, and the third division of the National Army annihilated at least 3,000 people under the Seventh Division of the Beiyang Army, and its own losses were less than 300 people, and the ratio of troop losses on both sides was as high as ten to one!

Such a proportion of combat losses can be said to be unprecedented since the formation of the Nationalist Army, not to mention the battle with the Beiyang Army, that is, when it fought with Guangzhou Long Jiguang, Hangzhou Zhurui, and even the Jiangxi army, Anhui army, and Soviet army of the revolutionaries, it did not achieve a loss ratio of ten to one, most of them were three to one, four to one, and five to one when they fought well. And when fighting with the Beiyang Army, most of the time it was maintained at a one-to-one loss of troops. Of course, these casualty figures do not include the surrender of the enemy army, the collapse and flight of the enemy when the battle situation is bad, but only the losses of both sides during the battle.

Although there were some surprises in the victory of this Taizhou battle, not only did it surprise many generals of the National Army, but even Xu Lishan himself did not expect that he would take Taizhou in only two or three days, and he could annihilate more than 3,000 enemy troops so smoothly. However, no matter how unexpected this battle was, it is undeniable that this time it was the National Army that won, and it was a big victory!

Since the Fuzhou Uprising, the Nationalist Army has won many victories, but such a clean victory as today has never been achieved, just a battle, in less than three days, annihilating at least 3,000 enemy troops, severely damaging a brigade of the enemy, and its own losses are not even 300 people, such a battle can be regarded as a great victory.

"This needs to be well advertised!" Chen Jingyun said with joy on his face: "Such a great victory should be well publicized to let people know that the combat effectiveness of our national army is not comparable to the decaying feudal army of the Beiyang Army." ”

Chen Jingyun looked at the Jiedian in his hand, the joy on his face was undisguised, and Shen Gang on the side was also happy: "The third division is indeed fighting well this time, Xu Lishan can take Taizhou so resolutely and quickly, it is really rare!" ”

As one of the few talented generals in the Nationalist Army, Shen Gang naturally sees the problem more deeply than others, others may see that the victory of the Chinese Nationalist Army in the Taizhou Battle has a lot of luck, or that Wang Ruxian of the Seventh Division of the Beiyang Army himself made a mistake, but Xu Lishan's swift and resolute order of the 32nd Regiment to intercept the enemy is the focus of the victory in this battle. And just from this point, Shen Gang judged that Xu Lishan's military talent was stronger than most of the generals in the national army.

This kind of military intuition and decisiveness is not something that every general can have, if it is replaced by other generals of the national army at that time, they may first occupy Taizhou, and may even be afraid that the enemy will take the initiative to retreat and set up an ambush, or they may want to ask the reinforcement air force to go to reconnaissance and get accurate information before moving, as long as they hesitate, even if it is two or three hours late, then the fighter will be missed, and if they can catch the fleeting fighter on the battlefield, then such a person is a real military genius. Everything else is just copied from textbooks.

Chen Jingyun also nodded and said: "Xu Lishan did a good job this time, I'll give him a commendation order later!" Xu Lishan joined the National Army shortly after the Fuzhou Uprising, successively served as the commander of the Fourth Regiment stationed in the northwest of Fuzhou, Tingzhou and other places, and later served as the deputy commander of the Fifth Division when the Fifth Division was trained, and last year in the Southern Jiangsu War due to the defeat of the First Division, the then commander of the First Division Chen Weihua was dismissed, Chen Jingyun urgently transferred Shen Gang, the commander of the Third Division stationed in Guangzhou, to the north overnight as the commander of the First Division. At that time, Xu Lishan finally got the opportunity, from the deputy commander of the Fifth Division was transferred to the Third Division in Guangzhou as the division commander, and then stationed in Guangdong for a long time with the Third Division, when preparing for the Northern Expedition this year, Chen Jingyun and Lu Rongting, Tang Jiyao reached an alliance agreement, the Third Army was withdrawn from Guangdong, and the Third Division and the Eleventh Division were transferred to southern Jiangsu, and Xu Lishan naturally arrived in southern Jiangsu with the army and led his troops to be stationed in Changzhou, Wuxi, Suzhou, and Jiangyin.

After going through Xu Lishan's resume in this way, you will find that Xu Lishan's qualifications can be said to be very old, even much older than Shen Gang and Yu Ruofei. It's just that Xu Lishan has never participated in a big battle except for a small war in the Xinhai Year at the beginning, and if he doesn't fight, he won't have military merits, and if he doesn't have military merits, he naturally can't be promoted as quickly as Shen Gang and these people. Strictly speaking, Xu Lishan's position as the commander of the Third Division is due to his qualifications, he was a senior officer during the Fuzhou Uprising, and there are not many people in the National Army who can be older than him.

This has not actually commanded a large army to fight for a long time, so Chen Jingyun had doubts about this person's ability before, but in today's battle in Taizhou, Xu Lishan has proved that he is a qualified general.

Chen Jingyun, Shen Gang and others naturally didn't know that although Xu Lishan was born in the Hubei Army Middle School, there was still a gap between him and the group of generals in the National Army who stayed in the United States, the United States, and Germany, and because he was a senior general from the beginning, it was naturally impossible for him to go to the Fuzhou Military Academy for further study like those middle and low-level officers, and it was impossible for him to go to the Fuzhou Military Academy for further study like Xu Jingqing. At the beginning, when he was the commander of the regiment, he was fine, but when he became the commander of the third division, he was in charge of most of Guangdong's defense, he felt pressure, he was a studious person, although no one was a teacher for him, and it was impossible for him to study abroad or go to other military schools now, but he was self-taught, collected a large number of military books, and even in order to directly read foreigners' military theory books, he also specially went to learn French and German, plus his original English, it can be said that he has mastered many foreign languages.

In fact, the cultural quality of the middle and senior generals in the national army is still very high in recent years, not to mention those who have returned from studying abroad, even if most of the domestic military academies have the basic cultural level of middle schools, for example, now Fuzhou Military Academy enrollment, the first condition is that candidates must have a primary high school and the same level of education, many generals will know more than one foreign language, among which Chinese, English is the most popular.

This is just like the navy, almost all the senior officers are students studying in the UK, and all of them speak English, not only do they often talk, but even the combat orders are in English.

Xu Lishan taught himself these military theories, and he was originally from Hubei Army Middle School, so he had this ability. In the past, he just didn't have the opportunity to show it, but today's Taizhou Battle shows all his military talents.

Chen Jingyun was also a little surprised by Shen Gang's direct praise of Xu Lishan, this Shen Gang Chen Jingyun thought he knew quite well, after all, he was the number one general under him, Chen Jingyun also knew his surname, knowing that this person was usually kind and friendly, and he was also very good at talking to his subordinates, but he was extremely arrogant in his heart, at least there were few senior generals in the national army who could enter his Shen Gang's eyes, and often directly said negative remarks about other senior generals of the national army in front of Chen Jingyun. He only made friends with a few generals Yu Ruofei, and he didn't hear much about him praising others in front of Chen Jingyun.

After Chen Jingyun had such a thought in his heart, he also thought about waiting for the war, find a time to meet Xu Lishan, see how this person is, and whether he can hold a more important position, Xu Lishan, who is still far away from the front line, naturally does not know that he has been included in the list of key cultivation by Chen Jingyun.

"In addition, Song Junpeng of the 32nd Regiment also played well this time! This time, I will also give him a promotion and be promoted to colonel! After saying this, Chen Jingyun thought that since he wanted to continue the general trend of propaganda on this matter, then he should focus on promoting a hero, senior generals like Xu Lishan and Song Junpeng are not suitable to be heroes, because it is difficult to resonate with low-level soldiers and grass-roots officers, so he read the battle report in his hand again, and then finally found the name of a lieutenant platoon commander, and after a careful look, he found that this lieutenant named Xue Zhihang was not simple, commanding more than 30 troops to block the attack of a battalion of the enemy army for two hours, He also killed and wounded more than 100 enemy soldiers, killed more than 10 himself, and wounded all the survivors, including Xue Zhihang. Such a tragic example of outstanding military achievements and limited feats is the most suitable for being a hero.

After thinking about it immediately, he said: "Xue Zhihang was promoted to captain, awarded the Silver Double Sword Medal, and appointed as the company commander after recovering from his injuries." ”

"The General Staff Department must create this momentum and inform the whole army of this commendation order! In addition, let the people of the Propaganda Department also pay attention to cooperation and launch positive publicity! ”

Heroes are needed during the war years! And this hero is not a person like Chen Jingyun, nor is it a senior general like Shen Gang and Xu Lishan, because these senior generals and leaders like Chen Jingyun are too far away for ordinary soldiers, and it is difficult to resonate in their hearts, so they need some outstanding people at the bottom to act as heroes of the national army, in order to boost the morale of the army, and set an example for other soldiers.

The propaganda department of the Nationalist Army soon launched propaganda in accordance with Chen Jingyun's instructions, first with a commendation order from the whole army, and then with an urgent story from the Propaganda Department of the Kuomintang, depicting the 36 members of Xue Zhihang's army as 36 warriors, and in the mouth of a group of members of the Kuomintang Socialist Party, Xue Zhihang became a staunch member of the Kuomintang and a loyal follower of Chen Jingyun, unswervingly supporting the great unification war led by Chen Jingyun and unswervingly supporting the rejuvenation of China led by the great Chen Jingyun! Sooner or later, I will read Long live Chen Jingyun, with a photo of Chen Jingyun in my pocket......

And it was these unwavering beliefs that allowed Xue Zhihang and his comrades-in-arms to fight bravely under the attack of the extremely vicious enemy, and let a sacrificial comrade-in-arms shout the slogan of Long live Chen Jingyun and Long live the Kuomintang to block the enemy's machine gun muzzle......

In fact, Xue Zhihang said to his subordinates at the time: "The president has raised us for several years, white rice is available every day, meat is also available at two ends in three days, and the salary is not deducted a dollar so that the big guy can get it, even if he dies here, the president will not treat the big guy's family badly, and the family can get the pension issued by the logistics department next month, and then the family can also receive a living allowance every month, and the children in the family can also go to school for free." Now is the time when the president needs you, and the time when the National Socialist Party needs you! ”

After saying this, a sentence came out: "The big guys are all people who understand, if anyone dares to retreat from this stall, the machine gun in Lao Tzu's hand will not recognize the brotherhood for many years!" ”

In the ensuing two-hour battle, Xue Zhihang was holding a Madsen light machine gun in the back, on the one hand, to provide fire support to his own side, and on the other hand, to monitor his own deserters, and the two deserters were killed by him on the spot!

The bloodshed on the battlefield is never something that ordinary people can understand, most of the time those slogans are just sung in peacetime, when there is a real war, even the old soldiers' legs and stomachs will tremble, and they dare not rush out in the face of the suppression of the enemy's firepower, those who charge forward under the enemy's machine gun fire are only two situations, one is that their spirit is so broken that they regard death as nothing, and the other is that they have their own machine guns facing them behind them, and the machine gun bullets that do not charge their own people will strafe over.

Of course, propaganda is propaganda, and the two should not be confused. In just a few days, Xue Zhihang's name spread throughout the National Army, and even Xue Zhihang's name appeared in newspapers, and Xue Zhihang quickly became a heroic influence in the National Army at this time.

In order to continue to create this heroic influence and encourage the morale of the army, the injured Xue Zhihang was sent back to Jiangnan on the third day, and then sent to Nanjing overnight for hospitalization.

Immediately after the many reporters arranged by the Propaganda Department began to interview, Xue Zhihang also publicized the outside world in accordance with the tone arranged by the army in advance, and then Chen Jingyun took a large number of senior generals of the National Army to personally visit this hero of the National Army and commend him.

In order to better publicize the effect, Chen Jingyun temporarily changed the medal for Xue Zhihang, and replaced the Silver Double Sword Medal with the Gold Double Sword Medal!

And as soon as this news came out, it caused a sensation inside and outside the national army, why? Because after the establishment of the Double Sword Medal by the National Army, the initial Double Sword Medal was discontinued, and it was changed to the Golden Double Sword Medal, the Silver Double Sword Medal and the Bronze Double Sword Medal, of which the Bronze Double Sword Medal can be obtained by any soldier, and the Silver Double Sword Medal is for officers, and the Gold Double Sword Medal is also for officers, of course, this requires greater military merit than the Silver Double Sword Medal.

So far, hundreds of medals have been issued in the national army, most of which are bronze double-sword medals, and most of the bronze double-sword medals are basic officers and non-commissioned officers below the platoon level and ordinary soldiers. There are not many silver double sword medals, and there are only dozens of them in the total attack, and these are all issued to officers. For officers, the Bronze Medal of the Two Swords is also possible, but it is definitely not as important as the Order of the Silver Twin Swords, and the Gold Medal of the Two Swords is still a dream for the time being.

Because the Golden Double Sword Medal has not been awarded so far, most of the generals of the National Army have won the Bronze Double Sword Medal or the Silver Double Sword Medal, but no one has the opportunity to obtain the Golden Double Sword Medal.

Xue Zhihang of the party was also a little confused, he naturally knew that his credit should not be small, according to his own estimates, a bronze double sword medal must be there, as for the silver double sword medal, it is estimated that it is enough, but in the current situation, he will not be surprised to take a silver double sword medal. But in the case of the Golden Double Sword Medal, this made him a little overjoyed.

When Chen Jingyun awarded Xue Zhihang this golden double sword medal with an inner layer of brass, an outer layer of gold, and two crossed swords embossed on the surface, he couldn't help but remember the tears. The Golden Double Sword Medal, he is the first person in the national army to receive such an honor.

When Xue Zhihang had tears in his eyes, and Chen Jingyun stretched out his hand to just hold his hand to comfort him, this touching scene was captured by the accompanying photographer, but the next day it was on the cover of many major newspapers.

When the propaganda was in full swing, the Nationalist Army's march across the river in southern Jiangsu continued, and after taking Taizhou, Xu Lishan captured Jiangdu non-stop, and then tried to cross the river to capture Yangzhou, but was blocked by the main force of Wang Ruxian's 7th Division on the opposite side of the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal. Xu Lishan did not intend to attack or stalemate, after the attack on Yangzhou failed, after he left a regiment of troops in Jiangdu, he immediately led the main force of the third division to the north, and actually went to Huai'an. At the same time, the 18th Mixed Brigade that then crossed the river had also taken Nantong, Hai'an and other areas, and went all the way north to Yancheng.

"They're going to capture Qingjiangpu." Feng Guozhang of Jiejiazhuang, Jiangbei, saw the intelligence from the front line reconnaissance, and quickly came to such a conclusion, and then he quickly made a decision: "Send a telegram to Zhang Xun, let him stick to Huai'an and Yancheng, and never let the enemy continue to go north!" ”