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A group of nationalist army officers crowded into this narrow anti-artillery hole from the front line of the central fortress, this anti-artillery hole is only 20 square meters in size, and this anti-artillery hole completely built in the trench naturally does not have a large area of windows, even if it is broad daylight outside, but several kerosene lamps are still lit in the headquarters, and in the dim light, seven or eight national army officers are discussing around a military map on the middle table. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Xue Zhihang's face was grim: "A whole battalion, a whole battalion can't take a mere No. 98 fortress, not only did not take it, but also wiped out a company, how can you let me explain to the division?" ”

Xue Zhihang's words made the faces of the officers below look ugly, and one of the majors turned as pale as a pig's liver, but although his face was red, he didn't dare to speak directly when his boss was speaking on the spot.

"Now our division has reached the most critical moment in attacking the enemy's central fortress, and the brothers of the 31st Regiment have taken positions 93 and 94, and have broken through to the core defense area of the enemy fortress. The 33rd Regiment has also conquered position No. 109, attracting a large number of enemy forces and providing sufficient fire cover for our regiment to attack positions No. 98 and 97! However, now that the third battalion is fighting like this, how do you want me to explain to the master? Xue Zhihang spoke loudly at this time, and the content of his words clearly showed that he was seriously reprimanding these officers of the third battalion.

Xue Zhihang is indeed very angry, as the first winner of the Golden Double Sword Medal in the National Army, since last year's Jiangbei Campaign, he Xue Zhihang has become a heroic soldier of the National Army, his name Xue Zhihang and many other big newspapers, when the news reached his hometown in Ningbo, the local political axe also sent a pennant to his family, and the mayor of Ningbo City personally came to thank his father for raising a good son for the Chinese nation, these actions were originally propaganda activities carried out by the National Army, But it also made Xue Zhihang's father a little more beautiful, and then went to Nanjing, and said to Xue Zhihang, who was still hospitalized: "Son, you do a good job, make a general for our old Xue family!" ”

After being discharged from the hospital, Xue Zhihang returned to his original unit and became a company commander, and then he was promoted to battalion commander for meritorious service, and when Song Junpeng, the former commander of the 32nd Regiment, was promoted to the commander of the Third Division, Xue Zhihang also took over the post of commander of the 32nd Regiment. From last year's lieutenant platoon commander to the current lieutenant colonel regiment commander, Xue Zhihang can be said to have jumped three levels in a row, and his promotion speed was the fastest among his classmates at the Fuzhou Military Academy during the same period. Since Xue Zhihang became famous, the propaganda troops of the National Army have repeatedly carried out propaganda on Xue Zhihang, hoping to establish a positive impression of a positive hero of the National Army, so this person can be said to be a soldier with the highest exposure rate in the National Army, and from time to time the propaganda department of the National Army will write a manuscript, most of which are how many enemies Xue Zhihang, a combat hero of our army, has defeated and captured a certain important area, and has received a letter of commendation from Chen JingyunFor example, in the Qingdao War, the propaganda unit of the Kuomintang also specially selected Xue Zhihang's 32nd Regiment to report, and sent several reporters accompanying the army.

However, Xue Zhihang, who looks extremely beautiful to outsiders, knows his own troubles, he was just a platoon commander a year ago, and then he was promoted as fast as a rocket, of course it is a good thing to be promoted, but the speed of promotion is too fast, which also leads to Xue Zhihang's actual command experience not being able to keep up with his promotion speed. Although the National Army has only been in the army for a few years, there are many examples of some promotions beyond the ranks, and many regimental, division and brigade level officers are extremely young, but as a regular force, the promotion channels within the National Army are also quite strict, at present, the vast majority of the officers at and above the regimental level of the National Army have more than several years of military experience, at least half of them are former Qing officers, and most of the remaining half are graduates of the previous few periods of the Fuzhou Military Academy, as for those major generals at the division and brigade level, more than ninety percent are also from former Qing officers. Whether it was joined during the Fuzhou Uprising or later defected, most of them already have many years of military experience, such as Lin Chengkun, the youngest lieutenant general in the National Army, this person is only twenty-five years old this year, one year younger than Chen Jingyun, but this person is the same as other former Qing officers, he has already begun to attend the Fuzhou Provincial Army Primary School when he was a teenager, then the Army Middle School, and finally entered the Beiyang Officer Academy, and after graduation, he served in the tenth town of the New Army for more than a year, so although this person is young, But he is from a serious academic background, and when it comes to military qualifications, he is not much worse than any senior general of the National Army.

In fact, most of these people who came from these military schools in the pre-Qing Dynasty were determined to join the army when they were teenagers, from army novels to army middle schools, to the Beiyang Officer Academy, or to study in military academies of other countries, most of them have gone through systematic military training for several years, and they have also become professional officers after graduation. In this respect, there is an essential difference between the students of the Fuzhou Military Academy and those graduates of the three-month term, the students of the Fuzhou Military Academy are all directly recruited educated young people from society, and the school period is only three months in a hurry; although many generals and commanders have emerged here, the vast majority of the officers who graduated from the Fuzhou Military Academy are still lacking in quality.

Compared with those seniors of the Fuzhou Military Academy, Xue Zhihang's situation is even worse, he went to serve in the Third Division after graduating from the Fuzhou Military Academy last year, and he was promoted to the position of regiment commander in only one year. During this period, although he also studied many military books and tried to improve his command level, his own family knew his own affairs, and Xue Zhihang knew that his command ability was somewhat inferior to that of other regiment commanders.

In this battle of Qingdao, the 3rd Division was responsible for attacking the central fortress of the German army, and his 32nd Regiment was assigned the task of attacking the two fortress positions of No. 97 and 98 and several other small positions. The two positions of No. 97 and No. 98 were the focus of the German army's defense due to their extremely important positions, and a large number of heavy machine gun fire points were deployed, which also caused the 32nd Regiment to suffer great losses in the early offensive battle.

"Tuanza, their fortress is built in too secluded places, and we don't have heavy artillery support, so it's really ...... to take position 97," said a lieutenant of the 3rd Battalion.

Xue Zhihang said: "Wouldn't we have fought without heavy artillery?" The 28th Division is not yet without heavy artillery support, they have now taken the Xiaokanshan Fortress, and they are already attacking the Xiaokanshan North Fortress, can they say that they can do it, we can't? ”

Xue Zhihang's words made several officers beside him sigh incomparably, there are only many German troops on the side of the Xiaokanshan Fortress, and the total attack is only five or six hundred, and how many German troops are there in the central fortress, but there are at least more than 2,000 German troops, and in front of the 32nd Regiment, there are at least five or six hundred German troops, plus the Germans also rely on fortress fortifications and heavy machine guns for defensive operations, which makes it extremely difficult for the third division to attack the side.

Xue Zhihang also knew the difficulties faced by his troops, and also knew that because his side lacked enough army heavy artillery, when he went to conquer the enemy's fortifications, there was almost no other way than to fill in with the soldier's surname.

If it was just a slow siege, maybe it would have consumed until the German army ran out of ammunition and food, but the upper side didn't know what to think, it turned out to be a connection to urge the troops to launch a fierce attack, if it wasn't for the urgency from above, the casualties of the Nationalist army on the Qingdao front line would not have been so great. The reason why Chen Jingyun let the front-line troops quickly take Qingdao regardless of casualties was naturally because he was afraid that time would drag on and produce unnecessary changes, and the Military Intelligence Department had already reported that "this army has mobilized several divisions and regiments, and after a long time, Chen Jingyun is also afraid of other changes, and the troops will quickly launch an attack, although the casualties will be larger, but Chen Jingyun still does so."

Chen Jingyun's many concerns were naturally not something that middle-level officers like Xue Zhihang could understand, what he knew was that the division headquarters had already ordered him to solve positions No. 97 and No. 98 within two days, and then quickly step forward to support the 31st Regiment, which was in the midst of a bitter battle. Now a day has passed, although the No. 98 position has been conquered, the German No. 97 position is still unable to be overcome, and the casualties in the attack on the No. 97 position are extremely large, and even led to a company being wiped out.

Xue Zhihang took a deep breath and said: "I will transfer three 80mm mortars to your three battalions, I don't care what method you use, I have to pull out this No. 97 position for me before twelve o'clock tomorrow!" ”

After saying that, Xue Zhihang went out with a few officers from the regiment headquarters, leaving only a few officers from the third battalion, the major battalion commander of the third battalion gritted his teeth, and then said: "Let the fourth company temporarily retreat to rest, and then all the personnel of the battalion headquarters will join the fourth company, tonight I will personally lead the fourth company to launch a night attack, Lao Tzu will not believe that it will not be able to take it!" ”

After saying that, he looked around again: "If you really can't take it, you will accompany me to martyrdom!" ”

At three o'clock in the morning that night, nearly 300 people from the 3rd Battalion of the 32nd Regiment of the Third Division launched a night attack on the No. 97 position, the core defense point of the German central fortress, Major Hong Zhilin of the third battalion led by the team, was killed that night, and the fourth company Captain Pan Shubiao took over the command to continue the attack, after three hours of fierce fighting, the bomb team composed of more than 10 members of the National Socialist Party of the attacking force was naked, tied to explosives and rushed forward, and then successfully blew up an important stronghold of the No. 97 position, at seven o'clock in the morning, the second company of the first battalion of the 32nd regiment was ordered to come to support, Break through the enemy's defensive core positions after entering the battle.

At ten o'clock in the morning, the 3rd Battalion captured position No. 97!

In the battle, the third battalion of the national army suffered more than 100 casualties, and the commander of the third battalion, Major Hong Zhilin, was killed!

On this day, the 32nd Regiment fully conquered positions No. 97 and No. 98, and hurried to the 31st Regiment to support, and by this time the German central fortress defense had already been captured!

That is, on this day, in the Hong Mansion in Nanjing, Hong Zitai looked at the telegram sent by Xu Lishan in his hand, and his face was dull: "Zhilin is gone!" ”

The second aunt beside him cried even more after reading the telegram: "My son! "I just fainted after crying twice!

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