readx; In a small mountain outside Chuzhou, Cheng Zixian, who was wearing a crumpled officer's regular uniform, held a small military map in his hand, which was covered with dense lines, and Cheng Zixian took out a telescope after looking at it for a long time and carefully observed it in the distance. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Battalion commander, according to what I said, I will lead the team directly up later, and I promise to take it down within an hour!" A young captain beside Cheng Zixian said loudly, this person is actually not tall, and even short, but his voice is very large, which makes people sound extremely inconsistent with his short stature.

Cheng Zixian put down the binoculars: "Rush up directly, you are afraid of your life!" ”

When Cheng Zixian said this, the young captain also blushed a little: "As long as the battalion commander gives me some money for mortars and light machine guns, it is not impossible to rush forward!" ”

At this time, another captain beside Cheng Zixian also spoke: "I think there is only one way to rush hard, the position of the two heavy machine guns deployed by the enemy on the opposite side is too deadly, and due to the relationship between the firing boundary, our mortar group cannot find a suitable firing position to kill them!" The regimental headquarters only gave us six hours, and if we continue to stay here, I am afraid that we will not be able to reach the intended goal by midnight! ”

Cheng Zixian listened to the words of the people around him, and did not speak for a while, but pondered in his heart. Since he was promoted to major in the Wuhu War and became the battalion commander of the first battalion of the 92nd Regiment of the Ninth Division, Cheng Zixian can be regarded as a colonel like the students of the fourth phase of the Fuzhou Military Academy who graduated together. Although there is no way for a major to compare with the lieutenant colonel and colonel classmates, at least it is not too bad, and he is also a middle-level officer in any case, and the classmates do not have the same embarrassment as before.

After becoming a major battalion commander, he naturally hoped to continue to climb up. The National Army wants to be in the war, and the frequent large-scale wars have allowed the National Army to expand continuously, and the continuous expansion has naturally brought hope for promotion to a large number of officers, not to mention Cheng Zixian, but I heard that when four mixed brigades were formed during this period of time, a large number of officers were promoted, and one of his good classmates was originally only serving as a battalion commander in the second division, and when he took advantage of this expansion, he also got the position of a mixed brigade commander, which made Cheng Zixian envious.

In the National Army, if you want a graduate of Fuzhou Military Academy like Cheng Zixian, there is basically no problem in being promoted to the rank of captain in general, and if you go up to the next level to become a school officer, although it is not a little difficult, if you graduate early enough, you should be able to survive by virtue of your qualifications, or it is relatively easy to be promoted by virtue of military merits. But after climbing to the rank of major and becoming a mid-level officer, it is much more difficult to climb up the ranks. Because if the major climbs up further, he will be a lieutenant colonel and other positions, this kind of position is limited, and it is not easy to move out, so a large number of battalion commanders are looking at the position of the regiment commander or the same level below.

Taking Cheng Zixian himself as an example, if he wants to continue to be promoted, he will either make great contributions and be recommended by the generals above who are at least at the level of division commanders. Either he honestly boiled his qualifications and waited for the large-scale expansion of the national army, and his classmate was such an example. And in the case of the Ninth Division, if his superiors, that is, those regiment commanders, have no accidents, he doesn't want to climb up in a short time, you must know that after Zuo Yugang of the 91st Regiment was promoted to major general by Chen Jingyun, the next position of the commander of the 91st Regiment was coveted by many people in the Ninth Division, and a large group of majors and lieutenant colonels were staring at it.

Although at the last moment, Zuo Yugang led the Ninth Division to successfully break through the defense line of the Chaohu defenders and successfully get in touch with the encircled Fifth Mixed Brigade, but it could not hide the fact that the Ninth Division was ineffective at that time. Therefore, neither Chen Jingyun nor the Second Army Military Department planned to give large-scale commendations to the Ninth Division, so it was naturally difficult for the officers below to be promoted.

In the Hefei War, although the performance of the Ninth Division was not bad, it was not too brilliant, and even Cheng Zixian himself did not make any contributions, and he could not be promoted without getting conspicuous credit, which was quite depressing for Cheng Zixian, and he could only slowly boil his qualifications. However, now that the National Army is in the midst of a war, the normal experience of leading troops to fight is not a very outstanding experience, after all, the generals of the entire National Army are leading troops to fight, and there will be no generals who have a little experience in fighting in peacetime will be quickly promoted. Therefore, boiling qualifications is quite a helpless thing for Cheng Zixian.

But although you can't make a big achievement, it's not bad if you can slowly get your qualifications, and the most important thing is not to make mistakes.; In the national army, perhaps those high-ranking generals who have made mistakes will only be slightly punished, and it is not impossible to make a comeback, but for middle and low-level officers, once they make a mistake, it means that the future is completely over. It's almost impossible to climb up.

So he had always been extremely cautious when leading his troops, and now the situation seemed to force him to take a risk.

In the morning, he received an order from the regimental headquarters to move his first battalion to the left, and to give him six hours to reach a friendly battalion of the 93rd Regiment five kilometers away.

However, this kind of roundabout movement is not just a matter of running over, and now the Nationalist Army inside and outside Chuzhou has engaged in large-scale battles with the Beiyang Army, and the battle lines of the two sides are crossed, but it is not a complete straight line, so on the way forward, they encountered the suppression of a firepower point of the enemy and could not move.

The opponent's firepower point is built on a semi-fixed fortification, and it is extremely rare to cross the deployment of two heavy machine guns, this firepower point almost suppresses the open area hundreds of meters ahead, and if you want to bypass, not far away is the enemy's main position, and if you go around the flank, you will also encounter the enemy, and it will be quite troublesome to be suppressed at that time.

After thinking about it for a long time, Cheng Zixian finally made up his mind: "The second and third companies will attack in a roundabout way, and you will bring all the eight light machine guns of the battalion's machine gun company, and then bring two mortars each, and I will ask for artillery support from the upper peak at that time!" ”

After thinking about it for a long time, Cheng Zixian still decided to take the risk of a surprise attack, as long as this machine gun fire point can be knocked out, the follow-up battle will be much more convenient, even if the troops will have some losses at that time, but the comparison between the gain and the risk is completely acceptable.

Cheng Zixian soon asked for artillery support from the rear, and it didn't take long for the artillery of the rear artillery regiment to fire out the shells that crossed the sky, and soon exploded on the position of the Beiyang Army on the opposite side. The third joint provided fire cover.

Bullets kept crossing the positions of both sides, and shot a little smoke and dust on the land, and the smoke and dust raised by the explosion also filled the entire battlefield, and with the explosion of artillery shells, accompanied by the strafing of bullets, neither side had soldiers knocked down, bullets penetrated the bodies of soldiers on both sides, and then bloomed bright blood flowers.

Cheng Zixian, who was behind, looked at the situation on the battlefield with cold eyes, watching his own soldiers continue to fall, he frowned, the opponent's defensive strength was much stronger than he imagined, and it seemed that he could not take it by relying only on the second and third companies, and immediately turned his head to the herald and said: "Order the first company to step forward from the left side to reinforce!" The fourth company is ready for battle! ”

His first battalion was much more than the ordinary infantry battalion of the Nationalist Army and the infantry battalion of the Beiyang Army, the ordinary infantry battalion of the Beiyang Army was no more than five or six hundred, while the infantry battalion of the Nationalist Army was seven hundred, but the strength of the infantry battalion increased again to 800 due to the completion of the firepower expansion of the Ninth Division of the Nationalist Army. Of course, this increase in strength is mainly concentrated in mortar artillerymen and machine gunners, and the ordinary infantry companies and ordinary riflemen below are still about the same as those of the Beiyang Army.

The result of this is that when the quality of the two sides is about the same, an ordinary infantry battalion of the Beiyang Army will definitely not be able to fight a battalion of the Ninth Division of the enemy's Nationalist Army, and this is a gap in strength and firepower, and it has nothing to do with the quality of the two sides.

After receiving reinforcements from the rear, the national army launched another charge!

At the same time, in the Beiyang Army position opposite, when a heavy machine gun shooter was using a machine gun to strafe the Nationalist soldiers charging ahead, suddenly a 75-mm shell fired from the rear of the Nationalist Army position fell near the heavy machine gun position, and just so coincidentally, a piece of shrapnel after the explosion came in through the front baffle of the heavy machine gun, and with the sound of explosion, the heavy machine gun shooter of the Beiyang Army on the heavy machine gun position had fallen into a pool of blood.

The officers of the Nationalist Army who led the front line saw that the sound of the enemy's heavy machine gun fire in front of them stopped, and they still had the heart to guess whether their own mortar group had knocked out the heavy machine gun, so they immediately took advantage of this free time to attack forward, and the one running in front was a 60-mm mortar group.

In the training content of the Nationalist Army, the first training objective of the 60-mm mortar group was to knock out the enemy's heavy machine guns, and the rest of the combat objectives were secondary.

In fact, the 60-mm mortar group of the Nationalist Army also did this, and many of the light and heavy machine guns lost by the Beiyang Army were basically knocked out one by one by the 60-mm mortar group of the Nationalist Army, and this time was no exception, this 60-mm mortar group in order to knock out the heavy machine gun position of the Beiyang Army, and even took the risk of advancing with the front-line infantry, and under the fierce enemy fire, it actually reached 200 meters away from the front line, and successfully got the firing range.

When the heavy machine gun shooter of the Beiyang Army was killed, the heavy machine gun commander of the Beiyang Army quickly arranged for a second heavy machine gun shooter to replace him, and then, the heavy machine gun of the 38th year old once again spewed flames, and the fierce strafing made the rapid advance of the Nationalist Army stop again, but not long after, this heavy machine gun position was another explosion, a few seconds later, a second, followed by a third, almost all of the explosions connected by the three explosions were directly in the fortifications, Although the explosive power of 60-millimeter mortar shells is not as good as those medium and large-caliber shells, it is definitely not something that human flesh can withstand.

Cheng Zixian, who was in the rear, saw this situation, and immediately said with joy on his face: "The whole battalion is attacking!" ”

When Cheng Zixian's first battalion launched a battalion-wide attack, the Beiyang Army, which had already lost a heavy machine gun, lost the support of important machine gun force and quickly retreated.

Only two hours later, Cheng Zixian was already standing on the position of the original Beiyang Army, and holding the command knife in his hand: "Continue to attack!" ”

In order to provide support for the Chuzhou Campaign, the Air Force not only intensified its aerial reconnaissance, but also sent several large-scale bomber groups to bomb the Chuzhou defenders. As for the Beiyang Air Force, its backbone force had already been wiped out by the air raids of the Nationalist Air Force in August, and later the only few remaining planes were shot down by the fighters of the Nationalist Army when they were conducting reconnaissance, and for a time the dozens of planes sent by the Beiyang Air Force to Jiangbei to participate in the war were all lost, so that the Beiyang Air Force was scolded by Yuan Shikai, and the Beiyang Air Force had to reorganize an air force in an attempt to purchase an aircraft that could compete with the D5A fighters of the Nationalist Army. And this thing is estimated to be impossible to do in a year and a half.

Therefore, there was only one national air force in China's sky, and the Beiyang Army Air Force was destroyed after only a short period of one year.

"I think that according to the current situation, we should be able to capture Chuzhou in November!" With the continuous good news coming from the battle reports ahead, Chen Jingyun has been in a good mood during this time.

"It shouldn't be wrong, with the Ninth Division and the Fifth Division attacking together, the Beiyang Army in Chuzhou can't hold it. But the Eighth Division is fighting a little hard now! Shen Gang said: "The Eighth Division and the Fifth Mixed Brigade are facing Xu Shuzheng's Eleventh Division in the north of Chuzhou, and they are under great pressure. ”

"If the pressure is high, you have to bear it, as long as the ninth and fifth divisions take Chuzhou, hum, what can Xu Shuzheng's eleventh division do!" Chen Jingyun was very clear about the progress of the war on the front line, and he didn't need to look at the map to know the situation in Chuzhou.

However, Shen Gang was a little worried: "The Eighth Division has never been replenished from the Battle of Chaohu to the Battle of Hefei, and there are losses in this force and equipment, and the Fifth Mixed Brigade has only half of its strength left, the state of these two troops is not good, and the support in a short period of time is good, but it will definitely not work for a long time." The General Staff intended to move the 5th Mixed Brigade and the 8th Division closer in the direction of the 9th Division to relieve the pressure for several days. ”

Chen Jingyun said: "Your staff department will consider the front-line war in detail, and if it is necessary and feasible, then do it!" ”

Shen Gang said: "Yes! ”

After Shen Gang left, Yu Shifeng knocked on the door and came in, and then took out a letter with a purple envelope in his hand.

Chen Jingyun knew that it was a letter sent by Linna as soon as he saw the letter, but after Yu Shifeng gave the letter to Chen Jingyun, he said: "President, the people have already been arranged!" ”

Chen Jingyun, who had just received the letter, was slightly stunned when he heard this: "Oh, it's hard work, everyone is fine!" ”

Yu Shifeng said: "It's all right, I have already conveyed your letter after I went there yesterday and arranged a place to stay!" ”

After hearing this, Chen Jingyun did not speak, but looked at the letter in his hand, and then hummed: "Got it!" ”

As the director of Chen Jingyun's secretariat, Yu Shifeng naturally knew all about Chen Jingyun's various personal matters, but he knew that he knew everything, but he never pretended not to know, whether Chen Yu from Liuhe Lane in Fuzhou asked him or Lin Yun from the Presidential Palace asked him, he always answered that he didn't know.

He knew very well that all his rights and status came from Chen Jingyun's personal trust, and he was loyal to Chen Jingyun personally, not his family. Going deeper, Yu Shifeng also knows that his allegiance is only to Chen Jingyun personally, not the Nanjing Republican political axe behind him, let alone the National Socialist Party.

So for Chen Jingyun's private affairs, basically he will do what Chen Jingyun asks him to do, Chen Jingyun doesn't say or ask, he never speaks.

opened the letter, Chen Jingyun sat on the sofa and looked at it slowly, the words on the letter were the same as before, full of lightness, looking at Linna's words was like watching her dance, but behind the letter, he saw a name that he didn't feel comfortable with: "William!" ”

Lina also mentioned this name in the previous letters, saying that she was an admirer, and the admirer is nothing, after all, my fair lady and gentleman are good, and they can't stop others from liking beautiful women. originally thought that Linna would leave the United States and there would be no follow-up, but I didn't expect this William to follow all the way to Shanghai, which made Chen Jingyun quite surprised.

Putting down the letter, Chen Jingyun stood up, stood in his office, and slowly circled.

Although he felt a little uncomfortable, but he was a rational person in the end, he would not go to Shanghai to meet people at every turn, his current status is too troublesome to go out, too sensitive, if there is no important business, he has no need and does not want to leave Nanjing to go to other places.

After thinking about it for a long time, he wrote a letter in which he said that he would organize a diplomatic reception and invite her and her mother to attend.

It is impossible to go to Shanghai to see her, and although it is a little bad for her to come to Nanjing to see her, it is better than not seeing her. As for the cocktail party, there are various types of cocktail parties here in Nanjing almost every three days, but Chen Jingyun rarely presides over it in person. And now, it is easy to organize a diplomatic reception from scratch, just tell the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

And when Chen Jingyun handed over the written letter to Yan Jing Kuang, Yan Jing Kuang naturally gave the letter to Cai Ning, who was in charge of Chen Jingyun's letter, although Cai Ning didn't know what Chen Jingyun said in the letter, but when he heard that it was going to be sent to Shanghai, he still frowned. Why did that foreign woman get to Shanghai?

Although Cai Ning was responsible for Chen Jingyun's letters, but this time Lina did not write a letter after arriving in Shanghai, but sent a telegram to Chen Jingyun on the ship saying that she was about to arrive in Shanghai, Chen Jingyun sent Yu Shifeng to Shanghai to pick up people in person and arrange it properly, and Yu Shifeng personally brought back Linna's letter, so Cai Ning only now knew that Linna had arrived in Shanghai.

Although Cai Ning has never seen Linna, although in fact she Cai Ning and Chen Jingyun have no ambiguous relationship, but they have been misunderstood for a long time, and over time, Cai Ning herself is a little doubtful that she really has any ambiguous relationship with Chen Jingyun.