Chapter Thirteen: Silent
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The subsequent development of the war was as Galen hoped, but it was not exactly the same. Song Xilian led two teams monitoring Shipai to retreat and join Fan Hanjie's team, and went to the Grotto village to join the main force. The Western army of the Grotto retreated immediately after obtaining the battle of Weitang, but was captured by the Eastern Army by two large ships and seven small boats. Then the main force of the Eastern Army entered the Grottoes to rest. After three hours of rest, after dinner, the Eastern Army made great efforts and prepared to cross the river in the Grottoes. After Guan Linzheng got the news, he secretly led his army to set off and quietly hid in the south of the Grotto.
At this time, the detailed report and meeting minutes of the first phase were reported to the director department, Chiang Kai-shek, Gallon, He Yingqin and others, and then they fully understood how the situation of the war evolved.
The change in the battle began on the way to march towards Shipai. Out of Zhuang Jihua's suspicion of the Western Army's formation and concern about the enemy situation on the other side of Liedeyong, a combat meeting was held under Zhuang Jihua's insistence. At the meeting, Zhuang Jihua persuaded everyone to take a more prudent approach to attack, that is, to resolutely take down Shigang at the beginning of the attack, intimidating Guan Linzheng of Shipai, so that he did not dare to move lightly. Then the main force crossed Shipai and attacked the ferry with three teams instead of the entire army. The main force stayed between the ferry and Shipai, and sent a reconnaissance team to the north and south direction of Liedeyong, especially the northern grotto village, because there were large ships in that area. When the Western Army began to send a reconnaissance team from the other side to the grotto village, it was discovered. The Western Army's combat attempts were completely exposed, so there was a subsequent Weitang Annihilation Battle. The battle planning and deployment of the East Army clearly stated that Zhuang Jihua was written.
As the East Army crossed the river, Guan Linzheng began to quietly set out towards the grottoes. When the East Army passed two-thirds, Guan Linzheng launched an attack on the grottoes and quickly attacked the grottoes. However, he was surrounded by the East Army in a narrow area south of the grotto village. It turned out that the main force of the East Army did not cross the river at all, but was hidden in the grotto village. There was only one team paddling around the river, with the purpose of seducing Guan Linzheng and then annihilated the Guan army. The following is simple. Under the siege of three times the force, after an hour of fighting, Guan Linzheng's army was completely wiped out.
At the same time, the defenders at the ferry entrance gave up Liede and flew to Shougouling to retreat. During the Weitang annihilation war, He troops did not dare to go out without orders and the situation was unclear. After learning about the Weitang Battle, they reported to the Western Army Command of Shougouling and then retreated. However, this move was criticized by He Yingqin.
He Yingqin had recovered from the attack. He criticized He Shaozhou's troops for his actions, believing that He Shaozhou should immediately rush to the other side of the cave to block the East Army's crossing the river and cooperate with Guan Lin's army in the battle, rather than retreating to the safe Shougouling. His criticism was supported by Gallen. At the same time, Gallen criticized the East Army for crossing the river immediately and should not annihilate the Guan army because of concern for Guan Lin's army, which delays the time for crossing the river. If He Shaozhou retreats to Shougouling, the Western Army's Shougouling will increase its strength and the Eastern Army may fail.
Late at night, the Eastern Army crossed the river and then marched towards Shougouling in a hurry. However, the Western Army He Shaozhou's troops stopped and rested in Fanyuan, in Shougouling. This move not only made He Yingqin shook his head, but even Wang Bailing clearly believed that he was wrong and should retreat to Shougouling as soon as possible. After receiving the report of the failure of the Shougouling Western Army, Zhu Tang, immediately sent someone to find He Shaozhou and asked him to retreat to Shougouling immediately. However, due to the night, the order could not be passed to He Shaozhou.
After dawn, the Eastern Army found He's troops, and He's troops were wiped out. However, the two-hour resistance of He's troops stubbornly suffered a lot of losses and exhausted them. The Eastern Army was forced to rest for two hours, which was already noon on the last day of the exercise.
The director's department counted the forces of both sides, and the Eastern Army was left with more than 230 people. The Western Army Guan Linzheng's troops and He Shaozhou's troops were annihilated, losing nearly 300 people. Now there are about 180 people left with the Western Army. Since the Western Army occupied the bottom, it is still a question whether the Eastern Army can conquer it.
At this time, it was no longer important what the final result was. Although the number of people in this exercise was not large, it was re-staged in a radius of more than ten square kilometers. The village battle and ambush war were well-organized, and the number of people was not large, but it had the charm of a large army combat. At this point, the battle had developed slightly, although Chiang Kai-shek was extremely satisfied. Zhuang Jihua, Jiang Xianyun, Chen Geng, Hu Zongnan, Li Zhilong, Guan Linzheng, Song Xilian, and He Shaozhou, who emerged from this group of students, all showed their talents in this exercise, especially Zhuang Jihua. The actions behind the East Army were basically carried out under his planning.
Chiang Kai-shek further affirmed that Zhuang Jihua was a general who led troops. When he thought of Zhuang Jihua, he couldn't help but think of him recently, which made him a little troubled. Although Zhuang Jihua was criticized by **, his proposal of equality between the two parties also opposed many Kuomintang veterans, and he was also called the Red General. Although this name seems to be not bad now, I have to talk to him after the exercise. Chiang Kai-shek thought so in his heart.
Finally, the Eastern Army divided into two groups to attack Shougouling. The remaining troops of the Western Army fought bravely under the leadership of Shen Yingshi. The two sides formed a group of troops at Shougouling. At the end of the exercise, the Western Army was surrounded by groups at the top of the peak, but did not allow the Eastern Army to achieve complete victory.
After the exercise, Chiang Kai-shek and his adviser General Staff Chief of General Staff, He Yingqin, Director Zhou of the Political Department, and others reviewed all the personnel participating in the exercise. Chiang Kai-shek delivered a speech to all the actors:
"I am very happy for your performance. You have only received six months of military education. In six months, you have completed the military education that takes three years for the Japanese and two years for the Soviet Union. Today is the assessment of your six months of education. You have surprised me and the advisory group. Whether it is in the night battle or in the tough battle, you have fully utilized the knowledge learned in the military academy. This reflects the courage and wit of revolutionary soldiers, which shows that the education of our school is successful. But don't be proud. There are many problems exposed in the exercise. You must summarize well when you go down. There are also problems of leading troops. You have not encountered the soldiers. The soldiers you have brought are all students from the military academy. They are not trained by you. Some of you will go to the teaching regiment. We will also set up a new regiment, and the subordinate officers will also be transferred from you. At that time, you must train troops well. The country is in crisis. You must bear the burden of saving the country and the people."
"Recently, some people are saying that they want the magistrate to withdraw from the Kuomintang. Here I am the principal." When he said this, he glanced at Zhuang Jihua and saw that he was very calm, his face was not moved: "What I want to say is that the magistrates in our school are all good, they are all passionate young people. It is the Prime Minister's wise decision to attract such passionate young people to the revolution. The three major policies to unite Russia and support farmers and workers cannot be changed. Anyone who opposes this policy and those who oppose the magistrate are enemies of the principal. You want you to firmly oppose them..."
Listening to Chiang Kai-shek's speech, Zhuang Jihua smiled bitterly in his heart. Chiang Kai-shek was really good at speaking, saying loudly and not paying taxes, and cheating people to death is not worth their life. He couldn't help but look at Director Zhou standing next to Chiang Kai-shek, but saw Director Zhou also looking at him. He turned his eyes away. He didn't know what Director Zhou was thinking, but he was sure he was fooled.
"The officers and soldiers of the teaching regiment are also good. The most you enter the barracks is only three months, and the least one is only more than a month. During the exercise, you also showed a tenacious fighting spirit and a revolutionary spirit of obeying orders and not afraid of sacrifice. This is very good. You join the revolutionary army and become a member of the revolution... You should know that although you have suffered several defeats, your opponent is a military academy student who has been trained for 6 months, and their equipment is better than you. But even so, you have caused more than half of their casualties. This is an amazing achievement..." Although the Western Army failed, Chiang Kai-shek felt that it could not undermine the morale of the teaching regiment and wanted to encourage them.
As the student who performed the best in the exercise, Zhuang Jihua accepted the commendation from Chiang Kai-shek and Garren and sent him a certificate and bonus. Garren was even more enthusiastic and told him in person that you have the potential to become a marshal. At the same time, he also asked him why he didn't cross the river immediately, then destroy the ferry and leave Guan Linzheng on the east bank. Is this better choice? The consultant communicated with the students with this equal attitude, and Zhuang Jihua was still a little flattered. You should know that half of the Russian consultants were very arrogant, and Chinese and Western cultures were different, so they would raise their opinions directly, so some instructors often failed to come to Taiwan. Zhuang Jihua told Garren that he was worried that Guan Linzheng would cause trouble when crossing the river, so he wanted to annihilate Guan Linzheng first. Afterwards, he thought that he could indeed leave Guan Linzheng on the east bank.
The vigorous exercise was over, and the first phase of Huangpu students began to leave school. Zhuang Jihua felt like a full-time moving worker in a moving company, but the things of customers were similar, a backpack, and then there were books. There were more people, fewer people, and fewer people did not. He sent Jiang Xianyun, Zeng Kuang, Hu Zong went south to the company, and sent He Zhonghan, Deng Wenyi, Yang Qigang, and Li Zhilong to the political department, Chen Geng to the student team, and when he returned, he sent Xu Jishen and Liu Qiuxi to the newly established teaching regiment. It was the same every time, and he said the same thing, but they were all a little strange.
Because according to the informed information of well-informed people, Zhuang Jihua was teaching the First Group and being the company commander, but there was no news yet, and the company commanders of each company of the First Group had been appointed. Xu Jishen advised Zhuang Jihua that he might have gone to the Second Group, or like Yu Jishi, he would be the secretary of the principal. Zhuang Jihua knew in his heart that they were comforting him. Now the whole school knew that he was changing it. Although these two people were very suspicious of the Communist Party, they deliberately did not bring things to the point. He was so happy that he didn't talk about this matter. Haha, he said that I was a revolutionary brick and needed to move it there.
After seeing everyone off, he was the only one left in the dormitory. I remember watching a TV series in my previous life about a soldier guarding the military camp. Zhuang Jihua felt a little like that soldier. Now he is relaxed every day, running in the morning, and then goes to the reading room to read books and newspapers. The newspapers are still lively. Zhuang Jihua doesn't speak out, but neither faction has let him go. They are suspected of beating the "water dog", but the school is calm. "Friends of Soldiers" has successively published articles supporting the maintenance of cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party and opposing division. Zhuang Jihua is very welcome to such articles, but he cannot express his opinion. Some students in the second period are still staring at him, hoping that he will take action.
Chapter completed!