Chapter 993: Great Victory and Great Defeat Three

readx; Like many officers, Weng Shutong also has a good background, his father Weng Lai Qing was in the civil war was in the Fujian military and political axe, and was the first secretary of Chen Jingyun to form the presidential office secretariat, young he and Chen Jingyun grew up together, step by step to the position of governor of Hebei Province, although he did not study but for the economy is very set, in the mouth of the Nanjing elite elite, he is the next cabinet in the Minister of Finance of the powerful candidates. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Like many powerful people in the republic, he also sent one of his sons, Weng Shutong, to the military academy early. In today's China, military qualifications are a very important resume, and whether someone in the family has joined the military is also an important condition to measure the image of senior officials.

Although no one has said this condition, this is the default rule of the high-level! Especially during the current war, if you are a ministerial-level high-ranking official, but your children and grandchildren are all staying in China as officials or in business, how do you let hundreds of millions of families who sent their men to the battlefield feel, why are our husbands and sons working the front line, and you can stay at home and enjoy happiness with a large family?

In recent years, although China is still quite serious and has relatively strict control over the media, the supervision of public opinion on officials is very strict, and basically the resume and even the identity of every senior official can be found in the newspapers of the past. Moreover, the system of officials in contemporary China is an appointment system, although the vast majority of officials are getting up step by step, but the root is still the appointment system, and if one does not do well in office, he will step down, and the appointment of senior officials pays more attention to a question of prestige, why those non-professional officials, some experts and scholars, and business executives can directly be appointed by the central government to enter the cabinet, is because they have the prestige that many professional officials cannot have.

And this prestige or personal image issue needs to be paid great attention to by senior officials, and whether family members are in the army or not is also an important item in the personal image of senior officials.

Of course, this does not mean that having a son or grandson in the army can add points for yourself, you can only say that you are not lagging behind others, and other senior officials are on the same starting line, after all, it is a common phenomenon for the children of China's elite to join the army, Chen Jingyun has implemented the policy of excellent military for more than 30 years, which has led to the fact that the overall class in China, especially the children of the high-level to join the army, is very enthusiastic.

In the case of the most famous private middle school in China, the 'Zhicheng Middle School' founded by the Chen family, almost more than eighty percent of the students graduating from the middle school will choose to apply for various military schools after graduation. This Zhicheng Middle School is a school specially created by Chen Jingyun for the education of several of his children, and the initial positioning was only a private school, which can be regarded as the private school of the Chen family, but after decades of development, and almost all the third-generation children of the Chen family have studied in this school, and other magnates have also tried their best to send their children to the school, which has made Zhicheng Middle School also develop into the most famous private middle school in China, and it does not provide primary education. It only provides three years of junior high school education and three years of high school education, and the number of students enrolled each year is not much, only a few dozen.

In last year's Sino-Chinese war, according to statistics, there were 287 graduates of Zhicheng Middle School who participated in the front-line war, but the casualty rate was quite high, as high as more than 20 casualties. You must know that the number of Chinese [***] teams participating in the war at that time was as high as millions, and the total number of casualties was only about 200,000, and the number of casualties was only about 20,000, and the proportion of casualties was less than 1 percent. However, more than five percent of the school's graduates were killed.

Weng Shutong is also a graduate of Zhicheng Middle School, similar to other classmates, after graduation, he chose the Wuhan Army Military Academy to join the army, if there is no accident, he will be like most of the children of powerful families in the army, mixed in the army for more than ten years, and when he is in his thirties or forties, he will retire from active service, and then turn to politics or business, and develop in politics or business.

After all, not every officer can be promoted to a general step by step, there are so many children of powerful people in the army, and those who can stay in the army and be promoted smoothly and finally become generals are always a few lucky people, and most of them will retire in middle age and choose other development directions.

But Weng Shutong didn't want to do this, he wanted to stay in the army all the time, and then become a general, this is not only his personal dream, but also the best way for him to prosper his family.

In China, a mere high-ranking official, even a high-ranking cabinet official, cannot support a prominent family. Which of the top wealthy families in the country is not supported by a general, marshal and other bigwigs in the family, compared to the Weng family, those families are the leaders of the republic.

As the so-called iron-clad battalion and flowing soldiers, officials are flowing soldiers, those cabinet members have to leave after five years, and the military bigwigs are iron-clad battalions, which have stayed on top all their lives, even if they retire, they can still exert great influence.

For example, in the current wartime, Chen Jingyun's military advisory group in the presidential palace has a large number of generals who have retired but have been re-recruited for active duty because of the war.

The personal dream and the burden of the family weighed on Weng Shutong, making it almost impossible for him to bear any failure!

Today, he can't fail no matter what, never can!

Weng Shutong secretly made up his mind in his heart, but this still could not change the situation that the 6732nd Infantry Battalion was too small and full of crises.

"Now that the enemy's forward troops have arrived, it is estimated that it will not take an hour to get close, and now we have no heavy artillery support, I think we have to let the air force increase the intensity of support, now this scale is still too small!" There was a captain sitting next to him, like most of the army generals.

When encountering an enemy who cannot be defeated, the first thought is to ask for artillery support, and if there is no artillery support, then the second thought is to ask for air support, and in the end they will think about fighting like this!

This has basically developed into a routine of the Chinese army's operations, and when the enemy encounters it, it will first use artillery to round it again, and then let the planes blow it up again, and if the enemy is still alive and well, they will continue to ask for artillery support and aircraft support, and when they feel that the enemy is almost dead, then it is time for the infantry and tanks to charge.

This was true of the 2nd Panzer Division's attack on Thessaloniki, as was the case with the 67th Infantry Division's westward assault. Now defending Policastro will naturally do the same.

In their words: if there is a cannon, if there is an airplane, you have to shout slogans to launch a charge first, this is not stupid!

So much so that after seeing the combat mode of the Chinese Army, some foreign war correspondents jokingly called the Chinese Army 'old soldiers' and the US Army called 'young master soldiers'.

"I'm afraid it's hard to increase the support of the air force, I contacted them in the morning, and now the main support direction of the air force is on the main side of the division headquarters, and now the supply of the division headquarters is lacking, and it is said that at least 20,000 or 30,000 people are attacking the main force of the division headquarters. The air support we can get on our side is already at its limit! Although Weng Shutong is an army officer, he is very clear about the number of air forces in the European Expeditionary Force, this time the air force sent to the European battlefield, there are currently only two wings, not to mention that there are more than 500 planes, but the planes have a limited time to stay in the air, like the F12A's air time is only two or three hours, this is not the time on the road, the time that can hover over the troops is actually not long, and if you attack many times a day, the physical consumption of the pilot is very large.

Whether it is during World War II or in the 21st century, for fighter pilots, flying is a very energy-consuming and physical thing, and the physical fitness of pilots is very important.

The navy is a very Western-style service, but it does not mean that Western food is eaten all day long, and officers only eat Western food during dinner, and there is even a band playing at dinner for senior officers such as captains. However, Chinese food is also available on board, so soldiers can choose their own way of eating according to their preferences. But other people can choose, but the pilot is impossible, the pilot's restaurant in the aircraft carrier is set up separately, there are only large pieces of steak and milk and the like, you can eat if you like it, you have to eat it if you don't like it, and there is nothing else such as fried beef with green onions, braised elbows, boiled fish, chopped pepper fish heads, etc.......

It can be seen that the requirements for physical fitness of pilots in these years are very high, which means that even if there is an aircraft that can be used, the pilot cannot attack immediately after returning from the plane, and there must always be a buffer time to rest. Unless it is said to be like the Amami naval battle, because the battle is fierce, often the pilots of the first wave of sorties have just returned, and then immediately form a third wave of aircraft to attack again, but it is not uncommon for the air force and that side to do so.

There is no more air support, and there is no artillery! The rest of this can only rely on the 6732nd Infantry Battalion itself.

It didn't take long for the cannon to start ringing, as did the machine guns, and a defensive battle was already unfolding in Policastron.

In a building on the outskirts of the town, a large hole has been broken in the side facing the outside of the town, and through the large hole, it can be clearly seen that there is a 1943 assault gun inside, the barrel of which is aimed through the large hole.

A few seconds later, a ball of flames quickly rose from the muzzle of the gun, and then a 105-mm shell was speeding outside, and then a German wheeled vehicle in the distance was shot with a ball of fire.

On the other side, on a low hill, several soldiers were squatting in the hastily dug trench, and the sound of explosions was constantly coming from above, and the violent explosion made the ground tremble, and the dust kicked up by the explosion fell on everyone's bodies, turning their uniforms gray.

A few minutes later, the sound of the cannon stopped, and a sergeant about thirty years old stood up half-crouched, and then cautiously poked out his head wearing a steel helmet, and his small eyes quickly glanced into the open space outside, and then quickly crouched down: "The enemy is in the direction of ten o'clock, four hundred at a distance!" ”

Then a communications non-commissioned officer next to him said loudly to the radiotelephone in his hand while talking to the temporary simple map in his hand: "Request for shelling, target area 349, three rapid fire!" ”

As soon as his words fell, it didn't take long for several whistling sounds to be heard from the rumbling cannons, and then after a burst of explosions, the sergeant cautiously poked his head out again, but as soon as he poked out, he suddenly saw his whole body suddenly leaning back into the trench.

ps: During the Spring Festival, Chen Jingyun sent a congratulatory message to all of you: "On behalf of the party's country, I wish you all the best in the new year!" ”